Yeah it went a few years ago. Like you said, it was bloody awful towards the end.Sounds
NME
Melody Maker
The Word
Someone mentioned Q. Has that gone. Its been terrible the last few issues I have seen but its been a while.
Used to love the Viz, bought an odd copy and the full Billy the Fish story book.Viz, is it still going?
Used to get it from Phaze in the early days, spelling mistakes and ink runs galore.
Think I still have a few if the early ones about
Unless it was a Team 17 game, lolWould agree with you about Q and The Word which were both excellent.
A very specific genre, but I loved Amiga Power back in the day, a very funny and entertaining read not to mention generally honest reviews.
SelectJazz 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!)
Bit of a magazine nerd, Your Sinclair was my favourite.
The one I really miss, and that has never been replaced, was Time Out with its comprehensive and brilliant listings of things to do. If I arrived in London or Barcelona or New York, first thing I would do would be buy a copy of Time Out and start circling things to check out.
There’s no replacement for that. It’s insane to me that there’s no useful website or app which has comprehensive listings of a wide range of events in a certain city, when it existed 15 years ago and was used by loads of people. FB events is probably the closest, but the UI doesn’t really work and it relies on businesses to create their own events.
One of those things like headphone jacks, Bluetooth signals cutting out every 5 minutes and having to sign in to 3 apps with different passwords and multi factor authentication to change the temperature of your fridge where you go, yeah, the world was better 15 years ago.