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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Rumors from Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine (Oct. 2003)

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is one of my favorite rare interviews in our collection. The technical director on Superman 64 just publicly eats shit and is like "our team was terribly managed, we knew the game was terrible, there was nothing we could do and we're embarrassed it sold well"

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Mario is Missing! "Imagine a world without Mario" (Electronic Gaming Monthly #45, April 1993)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Carnage Heart "Build It. Program It. Unleash It." (Game Informer #46, Feb. 1997)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"What would you like the Xbox controller to be like?" I appreciate the 16% of people who thought we would ever get another controller like the N64's. (Game Informer #90, Oct. 2000)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Mortal Kombat 3 “First on PlayStation” (Fusion #3, Oct. 1995)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Zero Divide "The first truly complete 3D, 360° fighting game" (The Cutting Edge presented by GamePro, Spring 1996)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Power Stone 2 "Invite your friends over for some four play." (Game Informer #90, Oct. 2000)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Soldiers of Fortune "In this game it's either them or you." (Game Players #54, Dec. 1993)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Virtuoso “Turn up the volume” (Electronic Gaming Monthly #72, July 1995)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Fan art from Electronic Gaming Monthly #45 (Apr. 1993)

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

It occurs to me that many people don't know about the GameFan coffee incident. In 1993, GameFan published a manic 6-page review of the game Cybermorph that was written while tripping on LSD that somebody put in the office coffee pot The review declared that Cybermorph was the first "real" game

"... where, anytime, and interact with crafts and characters all over each of fifty planets, for as long as I wanted After rescuing my allotment of pods I can survey the world, taking out remaining enemies, playing with different viewpoints and examining structures. Each level is a different type of rescue mission requiring a completely new strategy than the last. Some moons are totally hostile while others require intense exploration and passive gameplay. I played for 3 hours to complete the first eight moons, then suprisingly met a boss on the ninth. At that point (I'm used to 16 bit games) I figured it was over. But I was wrong. Eight more appeared that required massive study to conquer. Then, after another twelve hours of engulfing gameplay, I reached the end once again, fought two huge gunships and figured, for sure, that was it. Again, I was wrong. Eight more planets appeared that I am still, two days later, studying."

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Unnecessary Roughness '95 "Feel the rush." (Computer Gaming World #126, Jan. 1995)

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Later on, EGM² was rebranded as Expert Gamer, as seen on this cute cover for Issue 50 where one logo transitions into the other!

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Nintendo Gamecube/The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition "Santa's going to get a hernia." (Total Gamer, Dec. 2003)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Stonekeep "This one you won't want to miss." (Computer Gaming World #126, Jan. 1995)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

FIFA Soccer 2004 "This is where I missed the target." (Computer Gaming World #234, Jan. 2004)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Mock-ups for Nintendo's next console and handheld from GMR #9 (Oct. 2003).

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

We've added 100 new CDs to our collection of press CDs from GamePro magazine, with thousands of pieces of game art, screenshots, and more So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer

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The art of GamePro | VGHF Library Highlights

YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Heretic "First there was Doom. Now comes Heretic!" (Computer Gaming World #126, Jan. 1995)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Disgaea: Hour of Darkness "Because even the strongest heroes need help sometimes. Get regular. Get Disgaea." (Official PlayStation Magazine #73, Oct. 2003)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Blackthorne "Violence Sometime it's the only way." (Computer Gaming World #126, Jan. 1995)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

From Super Play's review of Super Puyo Puyo. (Super Play #18, Apr. 1994)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Isle of the Dead "The locals would like to have you for lunch." (Computer Gaming World #116, Mar. 1994)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Dungeon Master: Theron's Quest "Demonic powers. Medieval torture chambers. Black magic. Where do I sign up?" (Electronic Gaming Monthly #47, June 1993)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Links Extreme “This ain’t no skins game.” (PC Accelerator #11 July 1999)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Bram Stoker's Dracula "Play It If You Dare" (Electronic Gaming Monthly #47, June 1993)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly "Terror Returns This Fall..." (GamePro #183, Dec. 2003)

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer. As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free. Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

There is so much history and every day I learn more of it (from Play, Volume 1, Issue 10, October 2002, p.17)

To hype the remarkable Mario Sunshine, Nintendo broke the world record of horrifically large pasta dishes, cooking up 3,265 pounds of spaghetti, surpassing the old Guinness achievement of 2,564. Fans got to jump into the three-foot high, ten-foot-wide pan to collect prizes.

An action shot of a man dressed like Luigi getting drenched with a faceful of spaghetti. He's holding some kind of Gamecube swag bag.

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Mega Man Zero 3 "Mega Man... Now fully customizable!" (Nintendo Power #186, Dec. 2004)

A magazine ad for Mega Man Zero 3. The ad shows Zero staring straight ahead at the reader. There are four screenshots from the game in the lower left. Text above Zero's head reads Mega Man... Now fully customizable!

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

A look back at the early days of E3. (Fusion #1, Aug 1995)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Yu Yu Hakusho: Tournament Tactics "Feel that raw churning in your stomach? That's the pressure of total command. (Unless, of course, it's your school lunch)" (Nintendo Power #186, Dec. 2004)

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James Mielke @milkman.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Sketch I did for SEGA back in my Ziff-Davis days for our Shinobi cover for Official PlayStation Magazine to use as a guide for their finished art.

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Cleaning Kit for Sega Saturn "Let Sonic and Tails clean you Sega Saturn" (Electronic Gaming Monthly #87, Oct. 1996)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Tomb Raider "You know how it really hurts to get kicked right between the legs? Wuss." (Electronic Gaming Monthly #87, Oct. 1996)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Nuke.com "Coming to the internet December 1st" (Electronic Gaming Monthly #77, Dec. 1995)

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 01/05/2025

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

From our current scanning project: This is a rarely seen trade-only pre-release US ad for Pokémon, using the original tagline "Catch 'em if you can." This ad would have originally been run at E3 1998

"Monsters have, once again, invaded Japan. Except, instead of crushing pedestrians and munching on rail cars, these new beasts are causing a frenzy of a different sort: that of the sales variety. As in eight million games sold and millions of dollars in merchandise. They're the monster pets of Pokémon. Next target? America. And considering their successful TV show, merchandising and hefty promotional push, the results promise to be just as phenomenal. Which means that there's a very good chance lightning will soon be shooting out of a few retailers' heads as well. Pokémon. Coming this Fall. Catch 'em if you can."

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Letter from Electronic Entertainment #11 (Nov. 1994)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Tetris Worlds "Tetris is back." (Official US PlayStation Magazine #54, Mar. 2002)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Welltris “Another Soviet Challenge Of New Dimensions” (Video Games & Computer Entertainment #12, January 1990)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

VideoGameSpot "At the end of your rope?" (Electronic Gaming Monthly #90, Jan. 1997)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

After EGM showed off the revamped Conker’s Bad Fur Day readers wrote in next month to guess that it was their annual April Fools’ joke. (Electronic Gaming Monthly #130, May 2000)

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Found in Retro Game Magazines @foundingamemags.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Final Fantasy XI "Share The Adventure. Share The Fantasy." (GamePro #183, Dec. 2003)

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VGArtAndTidbits @vgartandtidbits.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Nintendo anti-piracy blurb from Nintendo Power vol. 21.

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