As avid retro gamers, the Bros still reminisce about leafing through the pages of our favorite old gaming mags, hoping to find a helpful password or some maps of final dungeons. I still remember how odd I thought it was that Nintendo Power covers were comprised of clay model Nintendo Mascots other than, say a cartoon or screenshot.
Sadly those days are gone…sort of.
Like-minded archivists over at Out of Print Archive have been, well, archiving classic back issues of retro gaming nostalgia, and offer full scans of the magazines in their entirety for you to download for free!
Feel like browsing an issue of the Official Sega Saturn magazine? You got it. Wanna learn about the “new” Lethal Weapon game? Go for it.
Me, I’m gonna dive knee deep into the latest specs of the baddest, most cutting-edge gaming console on the planet– the Amiga GX4000! Watch out Nintendo!
[Via Out of Print Archive]
Patrick once saved a drowning dog from an icey pond, so he is probably better than you. 
Gaming and beverages have a wide and varied history, from 7up mascot Spot’s 16-bit adventures, PlayStation’s Pepsi Man and the Donkey Kong Jungle Juice energy drink. I believe in the business world they call this synergy. In the 90′s SEGA and Coca-Cola took such cross-promotional teamwork to the next level, releasing a complete beverage-branded console bundle. In it, you got [...]
Man, Nintendo certainly had a lot of awesome merchandising back in the day. In game-branded food alone there was Nintendo-themed cereal, mac-and-cheese and fruit snacks. Way better than those shitty mint tins they now sell at FYE and Newbury Comics. But here’s a Nintendo product you definitely should not eat: The Legend of Zelda Model Set. Currently [...]
(NOTE: This was a contribution to a feature that ran @NintendoLife about the 25th Anniversary of the NES. You should go read it.) The first video game I ever saw was Kung-Fu for the NES. My older sister’s friend down the street had just gotten the system, so she kindly escorted me down to their [...]
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