On Computer Games [free retro magazine]

Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨buru5@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨retrogaming@lemmy.world⁩

https://archive.org/details/OCGM-1-Nov-2000

On Computer Games Monthly #1

archive.org/details/OCGM-1-Nov-2000

I have been working on a passion project for the last two months; a retro games magazine, and it’s finally completed! This #zine is a digital celebration of nostalgia; a collective of writers from the federated internet that strives to capture the subjective quality of gaming with stories about life-and-stuff told through the lens of video games. Issue#1 covers November2000 and features: Breath of Fire IV, Counter Strike, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, love letters to the Dreamcast and PlayStation consoles, and much more.

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kadu@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I really miss magazines. I know print media is pretty much not viable anymore… But is there somebody making digital gaming magazines still? I don’t mean having a website and calling your homepage a magazine, but those nice full page artworks, people paid to write content without the pressure of SEO, etc.

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- buru5@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  that’s what this is – except it’s free! hope you like it.
  
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mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Archive.org is such a good service.

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xnx@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is so great thank you for making this. Is there somewhere i can subscribe to get updates if you make more?

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- buru5@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  not sure. didn’t expect anyone would want to subscribe. i do plan on making more, but it will be awhile. you can always follow me on mastodon @buru5@mstdn.games or follow the blog which i post some of the magazine articles in: oncomputer.games
  
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  - xnx@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    oncomputer.games (so i can click it)
    
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bobotron@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is amazing, reminds me of reading PC Gamer back in the day (free demo CDs!). I love that you hosted it on the Internet Archive, great touch. How long did this issue take to put together?

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- buru5@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  took about two months. i have a full-time job and two kids as well, so would have taken less time if i didn’t have Grown Up Stuff to do.
  
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Syltti@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Breath of Fire was good shit. Always was, always will be.

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njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ll stand behind anything that highlights Breath of Fire IV.

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