Post your favorite ads from Gaming mags of the yester-years

[Bonkers225]

I personally loved GameFan growing up. To me, they were way superior to EGM, GamePro, and Nintendo Power, especially covering Import Games, and Anime with all the beautiful glossy, colorful pages showcasing the games with wonderful screenshots that were way superior to the other mags. They always advertised Die Hard Gamer Club, and later on Game Cave, which I think were the same company but with a name change, and their showcase pages were awesome as well. As a kid, I would stare at them and just dream. But them prices were insane. They were 1996-1997 prices, with inflation, well, I guess it's the reason why game prices today don't bother me as much. I dealt with way worse in the 90's. Remember those Anime VHS tapes that went for like $30 for only 45 minutes? Pepperidge Farm remembers. DBZ Hyper Dimension on the Super Famicom went for around $80-90 back in the day, lol.

 

[Pearly]

I had just two of those magazines.

It had megaman X4, dragonball the legend and macross DYRL being advertised in the game cave. The first page of the game cave was all dragonball figures and it also had mega man x3 figures in it. I can't remember which issue, I think it was early 97?

I looked at those adds for years before I could get my hands on any it

 

[Bonkers225]

I had just two of those magazines.

It had megaman X4, dragonball the legend and macross DYRL being advertised in the game cave. The first page of the game cave was all dragonball figures and it also had mega man x3 figures in it. I can't remember which issue, I think it was early 97?

I looked at those adds for years before I could get my hands on any it

My mom bought me those DBZ toys. They were utter shit. Arms came off and those were the only things you could move around. DBZ Legends was my holy grail. And when I finally played it on a modded PSX, it was an incredible experience. No music though. Downside of the mod.

 

[bjork]

I always liked seeing the ones for places where you could order imports. Game cave, tommo, japanvideogames, etc. In a pre-ebay world, it at least gave you a ballpark in case you encountered an import at a mom and pop.

 

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[Cosmiken]

Started flipping through some old archived Gamepros and found this gem. I don't care for anything I see happening here.

 

[el_principe]

Started flipping through some old archived Gamepros and found this gem. I don't care for anything I see happening here.

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𝖍𝖆𝖍𝖆 𝕲𝕺-𝕲𝖀𝕽𝕿

 

[Cosmiken]

The most perfect year of all time?

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[Dyne]

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The most perfect year of all time?

What a time to be alive

 

[bjork]

Seeing that MGS ad reminded me of the one that ran in comics for the first Metal Gear

 

[Cosmiken]

Seeing that MGS ad reminded me of the one that ran in comics for the first Metal Gear
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Sooo friggin cool

 

[prnzo von Goon -l-]

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me holdin the actuaL 'zine here - not an ad but a walkthrough but stiLL from a gaming 'zine - have a fvQTUNN of Gamefans, EGMs, Gamepros, n Computer Gaming Monthlys in storage but now relocated to meh backyard shed

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xDDD

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I personally loved GameFan growing up. To me, they were way superior to EGM, GamePro, and Nintendo Power, especially covering Import Games, and Anime with all the beautiful glossy, colorful pages showcasing the games with wonderful screenshots that were way superior to the other mags. They always advertised Die Hard Gamer Club, and later on Game Cave, which I think were the same company but with a name change, and their showcase pages were awesome as well. As a kid, I would stare at them and just dream. But them prices were insane. They were 1996-1997 prices, with inflation, well, I guess it's the reason why game prices today don't bother me as much. I dealt with way worse in the 90's. Remember those Anime VHS tapes that went for like $30 for only 45 minutes? Pepperidge Farm remembers. DBZ Hyper Dimension on the Super Famicom went for around $80-90 back in the day, lol.

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haiL Sushi-X! IIRC he jump'd ship from EGM to Gamefan? or some similar dude. I loved them too untiL they panned SoR 3's briLLiant sdtrk n one said "I think Spencer Nilsen has surpassed Yuzo" L O L - hindsight/legacy would strongLy disagree with that.

n the way EGM roasted Golden Axe III around the same time...

from a (in some ways) more open-minded standpoint, Game Informer was a step-up in reviewer quality than wut Gamefan n EGM were devolving into. don't even get me started on Gamepro xD but even G.I. rubbed me the wrong way far more than once...

I meLLowed n expanded my view later beyond rookie short-sightedness n learned to chiLL n laugh instead of gettin meh feathers ruFFLed by defauLt... but brutal health hurdLes have tested that sternLy in recent years yada schma-dadah

when I dig out my 'zine stacks amidst my comic book stacks n poetry/lyrics stacks I'll take a lot of key pics

 

[nyka]

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I was coming here to post the Paper Mario "Demo"

That thing lit my imagination up as a kid ;v; I did cut it out and played with it as long as the paper lasted! An ad that invited a young player to imagine the world through the mechanics of being paper and flat ;v; loved it loved it

 

[LightningLegs]

Old-school PC games had some pretty badass magazine ads back in the day

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]