Magazines You Miss

There have been a couple of magazines about second hand cars which i have aquired in the past but they were bought out by 'What car 'when they started to be popular.
 
On the subjects of magazines, I'd recommend James Brown's (no not that one) book Animal House, which charts his rise from the fanzine scene to forming Loaded, and the subsequent genre of "lads mags", at a time when print magazines were a massive business with loads of money (and drugs) sloshing around.
 
Juninhoburger said:
Unless it was a Team 17 game, lol

(In order)

Commodore Format
Zzap!64 (Technically back via Patreon)
Amiga Format
Mega
Mega Power
Sega Pro
PC Format
PlayStation Plus
Play
FHM
Loaded (which I was once featured in an issue of!)
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I must admit I'd forgotten all about that little AP/Team17 spat. I didn't remember them being overly harsh on Team 17 games and a quick Google brought up the following 'evidence' (see link below).

AP2 | "Whining childish hatemongers"

theweekly.co.uk

As an aside, I must be one of the few people that has never actually ever played the game Worms on any format!

Also, I can't not end this post without asking you about the context of the Loaded article? (I'll leave the cheap t*ts jokes to others).
 
theredrooster said:
I must admit I'd forgotten all about that little AP/Team17 spat. I didn't remember them being overly harsh on Team 17 games and a quick Google brought up the following 'evidence' (see link below).

AP2 | "Whining childish hatemongers"

theweekly.co.uk

As an aside, I must be one of the few people that has never actually ever played the game Worms on any format!

Also, I can't not end this post without asking you about the context of the Loaded article? (I'll leave the cheap t*ts jokes to others).
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Haha, AP2 is a great read, I will admit. Stuart Campbell is still bitter about the Team 17 thing, though. Both sides didn't exactly cover themselves in glory like. Giving Worms 60% is as ridiculous as GamesMaster giving Sonic The Hedgehog 2 a much lower score than all the other media outlets at the time - just one of those reviews where you think "hmm, this doesn't seem entirely without bias."

As for Loaded, I was part of a local backyard wrestling fed and Will Storr saw our videos online and wanted to do a feature on us. Not even considering how this could reflect incredibly badly on us we jumped at the chance and he drove up to one of our shows.

He wanted to have a short match and get "colour" (which means get cut with a blade in order to bleed) but our top wrestler cut him too deeply and he had to go to A&E as a result. My photo and wrestler name were both included in the article. I kept my copy of the magazine for years but lost it in a house move. November 2002 issue, there's a copy on eBay but it's £20 and I don't want it *that* much!

Edit - Just found it for £9.94 including delivery, lol
 
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Zzap 64!

BTW, if you have any very old video game mags they go for a decent amount on eBay.

I sold Issue 1 of Edge for around £70.
 
VladKinder said:
Zzap 64!

BTW, if you have any very old video game mags they go for a decent amount on eBay.

I sold Issue 1 of Edge for around £70.
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I have the first 20 issues of Retro Gamer which I hope will be worth something one day.

I had every issue of GamesMaster from its inception to around 1997 at one point too, long gone now though.
 
goalscrounger said:
Jazz mags don't count, sorry!

Inspired by the Borrow Box thread, which defunct magazines do you look back nostaligcally on from your younger days?

From the 70s/80s, we used to get these two delivered from Maude's in Normanby:

Football Handbook
Popular Computing Weekly

From the 80s/90s I used to buy these every month:

Select
Crash
Amiga Power (and occasionally Amiga Format)

From the 2000s I got these two delivered:

The Word
Q (when it was good)
(I used to get FourFourTwo as well, but that isn't defunct so not allowed here!)
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Looks like it doesn't count, but Jazz Times magazine when it ceased publication in 2009 was a big miss for me.
 
goalscrounger said:
Jazz mags don't count, sorry!

Inspired by the Borrow Box thread, which defunct magazines do you look back nostaligcally on from your younger days?

From the 70s/80s, we used to get these two delivered from Maude's in Normanby:

Football Handbook
Popular Computing Weekly

From the 80s/90s I used to buy these every month:

Select
Crash
Amiga Power (and occasionally Amiga Format)

From the 2000s I got these two delivered:

The Word
Q (when it was good)
(I used to get FourFourTwo as well, but that isn't defunct so not allowed here!)
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I take it back about that pint.😀
 
Looks like there’s a few on here who spent too much time in their bedrooms……..and unfortunately not with nuddy mags like the sane ones amongst us.😀
 
FW2 said:
Smash Hits was absolutely hilarious back in the day. Paul “Fab Macca Wacky Thumbs Aloft” McCartney and all that. I absolutely loved it.

I also remember having a particular penchant for Blitz.
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Not forgetting Sir Willam Idol, Sir Clifford of Richard and Mark Unprouncablename from Big Country. And Reg “Reg” Snipton.
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
I subscribe, although I often dont even bother opening the envelope with the magazine in, but would hate to see it go to the wall as it remains one of the few links to a time before Sky and the PL.
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I can be a bit po-faced, but Harry Pearson's articles are always worth a read. I always get the edition with their start of season guide as it has a preview of each team from a fan, so you get some useful info on what's going on at a club beyond the results on the pitch.
 
I was definitely going full Razzle and Escort. I loved the 'council porn' 😂

Jokes aside I loved Max Power. I always liked looking at seriously modified cars. I now use YouTube to get my fix. I'm still a full on petrol head.

Also back in the day as a 'clubber' used to buy Mix Mag to see where all the top DJs were playing. Now you just use Google.
 
Spectrum weekly or what ever it was called. Spent hours copying code, for it often not work. Taught me how to trouble shoot code. Fun times 🙄
 
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