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Best game magazine ever?

Started by Dominus Nox, December 10, 2006, 06:45:32 PM

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Dominus Nox

December 10, 2006, 06:45:32 PM
I miss the old days of real, paper game magazines you could read whenever, wherever, no PDF reader required..

Anyway, what was everyone's favorite game magazine?

I liked the old ones that covered more than just one companies game line, like old space gamer and challenge magazine.


All in all I'd give challenge my vote for best, despite it's high number of typos and glitches. It just had a great style and covered a lot of games, mostly in the SF genre.

Damn, I wish there was something like it now....:gloomy:
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December 10, 2006, 06:56:18 PM
Dragon Magazine, back when thye had a section deoted to Sci-fi and Superhero RPGs.

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December 10, 2006, 07:05:41 PM
Dragon of the early 80s is my pick. It covered a wide range of subjects, from game articles, including non-D&D and even some non-RPG articles, to movie and book reviews.

Of course, much of what Dragon covered then can be found on the internet now. I like Dragon as it is currently, but it would be nice to have a real paper magazine that covered as much ground as the old Dragon did.
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December 10, 2006, 07:15:23 PM
White Dwarf in the mid 80's when they covered all the systems, Dave Langford did the book reviews and Thrud and The Travellers were there every month.

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December 10, 2006, 07:17:50 PM
I would say White Dwarf in the very early days. Dave Langford's spite was always welcomed. Solid coverage on a variety of games. Interesting well thought out articles. Then it become a toy catalogue.....

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December 10, 2006, 07:18:51 PM
Gary G you are a very cool cat :D

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December 10, 2006, 07:21:34 PM
Quote from: Dominus NoxAnyway, what was everyone's favorite game magazine?

My favorite remains The Space Gamer, when Steve Jackson Games published it (I wish they had a CD-ROM archive like what they did for Dragon).  Honorable mention goes to Different Worlds, The Gamer, and Arcane.
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December 10, 2006, 07:33:22 PM
Different Worlds was my favourite after about 1983. Before that I got Dragon and White Dwarf all the time as well. Space Gamer was excellent, but I used to read my mate's.

My honourable mention goes to a UK magazine called Games and Puzzles, which I used to read in the school library, and in which I read about a new game called Dungeons and Dragons.
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December 10, 2006, 07:34:06 PM
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December 10, 2006, 07:48:34 PM
Quote from: David RGary G you are a very cool cat :D

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December 10, 2006, 08:02:50 PM
Quote from: Garry GWhite Dwarf in the mid 80's when they covered all the systems, Dave Langford did the book reviews and Thrud and The Travellers were there every month.

I go back to the early 1980s with White Dwarf.  A really great mag, back in the day.  They had some excellent MERP stuff (mainly by Graham Staplehurst), as well as Runequest, A/D&D, Traveller, etc., at their peak.  I still dig their adventures 'Trouble at Embertrees' and 'The Key of Tirandor'.
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December 10, 2006, 08:34:34 PM
Dragon was excellent throughout the 80s, especially in the years when they were doing the Princess Ark series.

Also, honorable mention to Polyhedron magazine with its complete D20 mini-games, many of which were truly awesome.

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December 10, 2006, 08:36:24 PM
Dragon when it had the Ares section.

White Dwarf when it covered D&D.

Chuck

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December 10, 2006, 08:48:21 PM
Quote from: RPGPunditDragon was excellent throughout the 80s, especially in the years when they were doing the Princess Ark series.

Also, honorable mention to Polyhedron magazine with its complete D20 mini-games, many of which were truly awesome.

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Odd that you of all people would say that. Other than Princess Arc, the latter TSR era of the mag can be pretty low-regarded due to general Swinishness.
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December 10, 2006, 09:25:44 PM
Dragon, Different Worlds, Shadis, and older White Dwarf still get referenced by me from time to time.  Lots of good stuff to be used.
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