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]
(NOTE: This was my contribution to a feature that ran @NintendoLife about the 25th Anniversary of the NES. I just wanted to archive these memories for myself.) 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 [...]
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