Classic Gaming Quarterly I'm going through your channel and noticed that you've done more of these in the past so I'm going back and watching them. Quick question, where is the best place to pick up old video game magazines? Like, where do you shop for them typically?
Samuel Rivera eBay and video game forums. Every once in a while you'll find a comic book store that carries them, or a used book store than also sells used magazines (like Bookman's in the Phoenix area).
Classic Gaming Quarterly good tip! I'll try those places out. There is a vintage video game store close to me (digital press in Clifton NJ) that sells them (decent selection) and I always wondered where else I could pick some up from. Thanks man.
Now I’m getting addicted to all these lets read videos! I love talking, listening, and reading anything about retro systems. So Nostalgic to me looking back like this and to stuff and articles I’m sure I’ve discussed with my friends as teenagers in the late 80’s early 90’s. I can’t get enough of these videos
Great stuff! Game mags were my childhood! The internet is awesome with that instant gratification, but it was always super special getting your new issue at the store or in your mailbox, then spending the next month studying every page until you memorized it.
What a blast from the past! I love reading my old game magazines. Gamepro and EGM were two of my go to books. My favourite issue of Gamepro was issue 113 December 1998 (I even have it scanned!) It had fun characters like Tom "The Thumb" Blake, Major Mike and Air Hendrix and great hardware reviews. It's such a joy to flip through and see some amazing games that were due to be released that year. Ah, memories! Thanks again for a great upload. I enjoy your videos so much that anytime I need some nostalgia I re-watch some launch videos. You're one of my favourite uploaders and a total gentleman. Keep up the good work!
Oh man! I used to have this magazine and was also the first GamePro I ever bought! I have most of mine throughout the years, but this one got lost long ago. Very cool to see it again and brings back a lot of memories!
I love this 'Let's Read!' series that you have. I enjoy looking at my old Nintendo Power magazines from time to time. This has become my favorite classic gaming channel on UA-cam. You always have great content. Quality over quanity. Please keep up the good work!
+Classic Gaming Quarterly Man, hearing you recall all these memories you have from your childhood, REALLY makes me regret the football stadiums-worth of hard drugs, alcohol, pills, and pot that I put into my body over the 33 years of life I've lived so far. I'm sober for 2 years now, but the damage is done. Seeing that Road Runner Atari game, jogged my memory, and I realized that until now, the days and days worth of time me and my mom spent playing that game, were blanked out of my head. It's a great memory though, so thanks I guess :). Great retrospective here tho, I'll be watching a lot more.
I clicked "add a message to your video" when I published it, but maybe it didn't work. I announced a while back on Facebook and Twitter that I was putting the N64 launch episode on-hold for a while, but I know that most of you don't see that stuff. I have some other awesome videos planned for the rest of this year though, including at least one new launch video. So stay tuned and as always thanks for watching!
Exigentable These videos are amazing and the older i get i find the history of gaming more and more interesting. I think its something to do with games today just not being what they use to be. Gaming lost its creative innocence, imo. (Currently making my way through Policenauts thanks to channels like this.)
This was my first issue of Gamepro! Although I missed the issue after this, I collected nearly every issue up until mid-1994. Such nostalgia. I miss the feeling I got when I opened every new issue with wonder and excitement.
I love the let's reads! I always watch them winding down before bed. I'm not sure if they are popular on your channel, comparatively speaking, but please keep them coming. Thanks!
Thanks! They are actually not at all popular. But I enjoy making them and there is definitely a sub-population of my subscribers who (like yourself) really enjoy them.
Wow, I was 13 in '89, eagerly awaiting the new systems, pouring over these magazines again and again, hanging on every word and screenshot, what a time to be a kid!
Great job as always Chris! The RoadRunner and Atari 2600 ad really through me off. 11 years after the 2600 came out!? Can't wait for the Launch video this year!
Keep 'em coming. Love these episodes. I kind of have an idea where you do Nintendo Power + Sega Ages + EGM + GamePro in a mega episode all from the same approximate month/issue preferably in the 1993-1994 period at the height of the 16-bit wars. To have a kind of grand view of what the landscape looked like from slightly different perspectives. A good pick for me would be fall 1994 which is a bit later, but it avoids you retreading the same games from the 1993 EGM you did.
I think issue 3 was the first one where they released monthly. I had that issue. I had this issue, too! The Super Mario Land map brings back memories. I wound up buying SML again for 3DS a few years ago. Still a nostalgic favorite. After years passed, they said their early artwork just captured video game culture. No specific games.
I appreciate the work that goes into these vids. Thank you. Great vid. I'm subbed to a game mag here in the UK and it costs me £21 every 6 months,which I think is good value.I like digital mags and you can do so much with them but I guess I'm off an era where I like to pick up the paper and read...and smell :)
Classic Gaming Quarterly It used to be Retro Gamer but I'd been a sub for years and wanted a change. Games (TM) mag now. It's focus is on modern gaming. It still has a retro section at the back so I get a small fix which is good enough for me nowadays.
Arcadiality Yeah, Games (TM) is good. I can get that here, as well. Although here the British gaming mags are always a month behind. They must send then on a slow boat.
Classic Gaming Quarterly A slow boat is better than no boat,you could say. I have most old games I want and the PS4 reignited my enthusiasm for modern gaming again. I say that but I loved the Xbox 360 but just grew weary from 2013 ish to Jan 2016. Currently blasting through Axiom Verge. All that PS4 power for a SNES type game :)
the very first issue I got was this, it was giving away in Toys R Us. after this GamePro I was hooked. KEEP DOING LETS READ ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! amazing Video. Thank you.
Funny thing, when I was in Toys R us, Strider was my first nes game I bought that day with my free issue of GamePro. Also I love how you edit the play footage of the games you are talking about. very very nice touch !
In my child's mind I thought it would be like the arcade version, Instead it was a total different game.. I was disappointed but once I started to play it.. I loved it! Never beat. Thank you for making me feel like a child again with this video ;)
"YOUR WORLD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME" Genesis ad is very nostalgic. I beat Mega Man 2 many times. That's my favorite Mega Man game for the NES. This is good video keep up the good work!
_GamePro_ #4 was the very first issue of that magazine that I ever purchased too, way back in (I believe) late September or early October of 1989. Memories...
I like these Let's Read Retrogaming Magazine videos and caught up on all of them. It brings back a lot of great memories. I was 10 years old when this issue of GamePro came out. GamePro was one of my favorite gaming magazines back in the day that I was subscribed to. I subscribed to multiple gaming magazines from the late 80s to the mid 2000s, such as Nintendo Power, GamePro, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, and Game Informer. Although it eventually became easier and cheaper to just look up gaming news on the internet, but I still miss the good ole days of gaming magazines. What a great time it was to be a gamer in those days! Btw, you mentioned you almost got an Atari 7800 Jr. console back in the day, but I don't believe the 7800 ever had a Jr. version. The Atari 2600 Jr. was released in 1986 and was made to be cost reduced and look more modernized like the 7800. The Atari 2600 Jr. was actually the first console I ever owned back in 1986. Then I went on to the 7800, and then experienced one or more consoles from each console generation throughout the years, including this current generation. Anyway, keep up these great Let's Read videos and I'll look forward to the next!
You will be very happy to know that I am almost done editing the next episode of Let's Read, and that the magazine is Gamepro Issue #1! Should be out sometime this weekend.
Nice, Gamepro issue #1 sounds like it will be a great episode, especially being the very first issue from that great magazine. Thanks for letting me know and I'll look forward to watching it!
Love these vids. I read a lot of magazine scans so seeing what's in the mag isn't the interesting part for me, but moreso hearing the stories and opinions from your perspective back at the time. I'm not from the States so it's cool to learn about that stuff from someone who was there.
Thanks! I always feel like I don't want to spend too much time talking about myself, but I guess the individual perspective is what makes it interesting...
I thought I was the only one that Loved Shanghai. Though I first played it on the first console, the SMS. Today, I play it the Genesis version on my Everdrive. Great episode.
30:48 I never noticed this before, but when Super Mario Bros. 3 shows up in The Wizard, there's film artifacts on the game screen, so they were were just showing the game playing on a reel. By the way, did you ever wonder how Jenny Lewis knew where the warp whistles were? My theory is that she had the Honey Bee adapter and a Famicom version of the game, which released in Japan the previous year.
Here's what I like about your videos: 1. Your voice: (Which I don't mind because I also have a low voice but slightly higher then yours, if you were able to watch my news updates you would get an idea of how I sound like). Your voice itself explaining the issues (which my sister use to have a nickelodeon magazine), you explaining it just makes it sound calming, almost like I have a second person explaining to me what these mean and what they are. And that's where I like the advertisements because they're just very interesting to look at (Sometimes I binge watch on AsSeenOnTV commercials for a reason, there's a reason I love commercials is because they're trying to get you something that may not be necessary but it's how they do the commercial and the types of products/company they advertise for, money was never on my interests when it came to commercials. Heck, I use to watch a lot of 1980's movie trailes and 1980's commercials, there's a person by the name of 80sCommercialVault that has TONS of 1980's volume commercials, 1970's and 1990's commercials, just classics to look at based on what his family has recorded using VHS or online). There's a reason Ads told me about some of these games. Without it, I would have not known a lot of stuff in my childhood. However, we personally never had nintendo power magazines although we usually get gamecube games that would have nintendo power advertisement cards inside of the games itself along with the manual. 2. Retro gaming: This is the reason why I came to your channel was to find any history on consoles or any games that I haven't heard about that I wanted to see what they looked like and one of those channels (Besides games n' play) was yours. And you summed up one of my favorite consoles, the PS1 very well. I've seen a documentary of it many years ago back in 2011 and one of those games I remember hearing about was Silent Hill and Resident Evil as the scariest games to people. And I agree that they both are scary, although Resident Evil to me made me jumpscared more then Silent Hill.) Anyway, your interest on retro gaming between 1985 and 2000 (or so) is what I really love about your channel because I'm a huge fan of retro gaming. There's just nothing better then to turn on the console (without playing online or being online at all times), play the games and spend hours on it. Since I use emulation a lot, I can play games that I don't even own and have it in my computer. And it was part of my childhood with multiplayer as well. So that's why I love retro gaming. And 3. Your explainations, Q&As, and the launch videos are nice to listen to. Even if I'm doing something else, I can just have the audio from yoru video on my speakers in the background of my house while I do something else (even working on homework). The launch videos is what I really go for but I decided to try you talking about the issues and the moment you go to the next few pages, I love it. Personally I wish I would be able to find a free copy of these in some place like a museum or to have for just a rental in my house and then give it back to someone that really wants to own it. I would look through the magazine to find three things: One, the reviews and text, Two, the game titles and the screenshots, Three, advertisements. (I'm in love with advertisements by the way but the Ads nowadays don't excite me as much as the past has, the past had a lot more fun in the commercials similar to japanese advertisements they have ever since the 1980s. The game watch JPN commercial comes to my mind when I think of classic japanese commercials because of that catchy tune.) That's all I have for now that I like your channel. I thought I subscribed on my main account but I didn't, I subscribed on my ExtremeReviewer101 account but not my SuperFlashDriver account. So I did the same to my SFD account to subscribe to you.
CGQ man has a great deep voice too, pleasant to listen to. Would be great if he would do the trailer for a blockbuster or, yes, a massive video game.. As long as it’s retro inspired 🤓
Hey CGQ, I remember when I was a kid I used to watch a show called "Video Power" which went through different iterations but I remember some game show elements where the contestants would play different games. I remember watching the Neo Geo games and drooling over the awesome graphics! I could never afford one (or the games for that matter) but would love to see a video on the launch of it or a video on "Video Power", "GamePro" or any other video game show.
I will definitely do an episode on the Neo-Geo. I would probably not make a video about those TV shows only because I would be worried about having copyright issues.
The internet is pretty much on fire over the video that was released yesterday. Well, I'm off to go play Classic Games in my Room. Love these mag videos!
3:00 the reason for that is many states considered raffles to be a form of gambling(?) and had laws against that, but skill based contests where approved of where if there are multiple winners (basically almost everyone), they're then allowed to choose the winner by random draws. Kind of the same line as 'skill-testing questions' back in the day.
Enjoyable video. I remember that the Disney channel wasn't available on my cable service . When they offered it for free for a week, I thought it was the best. I loved the Mickey mouse club!
I think the oldest magazine I own is an issue of Game Players--but it's not the Game Players (or Ultra Game Players) that Chris Slate worked for. It's much older than that. It's from 1989 or 1988 and it's actually written on kinda newsprint paper. I remember it clearly. It talked about a game called Amagon, had single screens and descriptions for like 100 games, and ended with an article about the Life Cycle--an actual exercise bike that you connect to your NES. I should dig it out of my closet for old time's sake.
19:25 The Atari 2600 was actually doing quite well in the late 1980s. The $50 "2600 Jr" model was a hit, and the wave of "red box" cartridges were some of the best ever seen on the system. S ebody dumped Atari's internal sales data on Digital Press years ago, and it showed the 2600 Jr sold something like 6 million units. My number may be off, but it was millions and profitable. Very surprising considering the NES dominance, but Atari's cheap price made it a great starter option. And, as we all know, Atari 2600 games are still being made to this day, thanks to Atari Age.
Great video. I've been toying with the idea of doing something like this but based on magazines I actually worked on. I'm totally stealing this format :)
As a Zelda II fan I was interested in read about the question that was written in and their answer. If you pause at 26:04 you can read that the writer is stuck at palace 3 (Island Palace) because they need fairy magic. The authors incorrectly say to use jump in Mido town to get on top of the church and into the basement. If you follow their advice you will get the downthrust which won't help you enter the third palace. The correct answer is to get the water of life from a cave in the first part of the game and bring it to a woman in Mido town. I just thought it was interesting to see how inaccurate information could probably be back then. (Also that poor kid.) P.S. I love these videos. I think they're actually more interesting to me than the launch ones which are what drew me to the channel initially.
That's freaking GamePro for you! Glad you like the videos, and agree that they are definitely quite a bit different than the launch shows. I certainly have no plans to stop making either. I'm just trying to get a different episode out-the-door at the moment, but will then hopefully have a new read-through to work on.
Glad to hear it. Hopefully I didn't come across as down on the launch shows as I really like them as well. I have a bunch of old EGMs lying around if you'd be interested to take a look, BTW.
Damn did they ever make a sequel or remake that bad ass looking Ninja Golf? I can't recall ever hearing about that game so I've definitely never played it but it looks like it could be fun for a few holes
Yes! Please keep making more of these video game magazine review type of videos. Hopefully, someday you will cover the Official Nintendo Player's Guide. That player's guide is a very nostalgic piece of art to me. Keep up the good work!
you're one of my favorite youtubers and your voice is suited to narrating just about anything, man. I just wish there were more videos and that they came out more frequently. do you have patreon?
Hey Tristan. Thanks so much for your kind words! Trust me, I too wish I uploaded more often. Unfortunately it's hard trying to balance work and family with UA-cam, especially when my videos are pretty labor-intensive to make. In an ideal world, I would win the lottery so that I could just stay home and make videos for fun! I don't have a Patreon account, but I appreciate that you'd ask. I don't really feel comfortable asking people to donate money to the show when I have such an erratic upload "schedule". If you'd like to help out though, you can buy a "Classic Gaming Quarterly" t-shirt here: amzn.to/2fq4HmC That way the show gets some money, but you get something cool in return. Thanks!!
Golf games are often great fun. I'm not into golf otherwise. For Mega Man 2, I strictly follow the weakness order, with Air Man having vulnerability to the standard shot. I deal with Metal Man fifth. Tengen is definitely pronounced with a hard G sound, but the ten-jen pronunciation is very common. I really enjoy the magazine read alongs. Thank you.
Thanks for another great video! You mention that a screen capture in the magazine had to have come from an RGB monitor; I am just curious what prompted you to believe that?
The image looks pixel-perfect and has well-defined scanlines. Most screenshots back then were either composite screen captures, or were literally someone pointing a camera at a TV screen. Thanks!
Classic Gaming Quarterly it looks really cool! I don't know exactly why, but I hope to play my classic consoles though a tube amplifier someday, hope to get my hands on a McIntosh tube amp, but so expensive$$
Man this was a lot of fun to watch!! Please make more of these!
Thanks, I'll try to.
Classic Gaming Quarterly I'm going through your channel and noticed that you've done more of these in the past so I'm going back and watching them. Quick question, where is the best place to pick up old video game magazines? Like, where do you shop for them typically?
Samuel Rivera eBay and video game forums. Every once in a while you'll find a comic book store that carries them, or a used book store than also sells used magazines (like Bookman's in the Phoenix area).
Classic Gaming Quarterly good tip! I'll try those places out. There is a vintage video game store close to me (digital press in Clifton NJ) that sells them (decent selection) and I always wondered where else I could pick some up from. Thanks man.
Man I love your videos- you do them in such a polished way without any unnecessary filler. Keep up the great work!
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying them.
These are great videos. Adding the game footage makes them even better. You spend so much time putting these together. Thank you!
Thanks, Doug! Glad you liked it.
Now I’m getting addicted to all these lets read videos! I love talking, listening, and reading anything about retro systems. So Nostalgic to me looking back like this and to stuff and articles I’m sure I’ve discussed with my friends as teenagers in the late 80’s early 90’s. I can’t get enough of these videos
This video is amazing. Really brings me back to being a kid and flipping endlessly through gaming magazines. Thank you for putting these together!
Great stuff! Game mags were my childhood! The internet is awesome with that instant gratification, but it was always super special getting your new issue at the store or in your mailbox, then spending the next month studying every page until you memorized it.
Thanks for watching!
Oh man, been waiting for your next Let's Read for a while. I think I'm going to start collecting magazines from this era.
I’ve been doing a marathon over the holidays of watching Let’s Read, always enjoy the look back, brings up so many memories
Rewatched this your latest Let’s Read made me revisit, love this series!!!
Awesome content as always Chris. Thanks once again for all your efforts in making these videos.
What a blast from the past! I love reading my old game magazines. Gamepro and EGM were two of my go to books. My favourite issue of Gamepro was issue 113 December 1998 (I even have it scanned!) It had fun characters like Tom "The Thumb" Blake, Major Mike and Air Hendrix and great hardware reviews. It's such a joy to flip through and see some amazing games that were due to be released that year. Ah, memories!
Thanks again for a great upload. I enjoy your videos so much that anytime I need some nostalgia I re-watch some launch videos. You're one of my favourite uploaders and a total gentleman. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, Brad!
Love these videos, both nostalgic and relaxing.
Hey, there he is!!
I always bought EGM, so it's cool to see these old Game Pro mags.
The effort and care you take with these videos is amazing, great work.
Thanks! I appreciate the comment.
Oh man! I used to have this magazine and was also the first GamePro I ever bought! I have most of mine throughout the years, but this one got lost long ago. Very cool to see it again and brings back a lot of memories!
Awesome job man!! I use to love reading game pro magazine especially the 90'-92' issues.
Your read through's are absolutely awesome, cant wait for the next one !!!!
Thanks, Tazzy!
I love this 'Let's Read!' series that you have. I enjoy looking at my old Nintendo Power magazines from time to time. This has become my favorite classic gaming channel on UA-cam. You always have great content. Quality over quanity. Please keep up the good work!
Thanks, Ken! Glad to hear that you're enjoying my content!
Yes! Glad to see another one. Thanks for continuing these videos.
Brilliant video, love all the game footage running alongside the magazine. Hope you do lots more Let's Read vids
Glad you liked it!
Glad to see you back! Brings back some AWESOME memories!! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for this. Please do more of these and console launches
Thanks! Working on some new videos now!
I love these videos so much I really hope you make more!
Awesome video, well done , pure quality like always
Excellent video! Really appreciate all the gameplay clips -- must've taken a while to capture/edit. Great watch!
Thanks! It's not too bad. I just made a list of all of the games I needed footage for, and recorded them all over the course of an afternoon.
thank you for these reviews, iam totally flashing back to my childhood back in the 80s and 90s
Glad you enjoyed it!
+Classic Gaming Quarterly Man, hearing you recall all these memories you have from your childhood, REALLY makes me regret the football
stadiums-worth of hard drugs, alcohol, pills, and pot that I put into my body over the 33 years of life I've lived so far. I'm sober for 2 years now, but the damage is done. Seeing that Road Runner Atari game, jogged my memory, and I realized that until now, the days and days worth of time me and my mom spent playing that game, were blanked out of my head. It's a great memory though, so thanks I guess :). Great retrospective here tho, I'll be watching a lot more.
I clicked "add a message to your video" when I published it, but maybe it didn't work. I announced a while back on Facebook and Twitter that I was putting the N64 launch episode on-hold for a while, but I know that most of you don't see that stuff. I have some other awesome videos planned for the rest of this year though, including at least one new launch video. So stay tuned and as always thanks for watching!
For sure man, I have no idea what exactly I like about your videos but I always enjoy them, keep it up!
Looking forward to it! Take your time man, your content is quality over quantity and thats fine with me.
I love these Let's Read videos, and fuck did I love GamePro!
Exigentable These videos are amazing and the older i get i find the history of gaming more and more interesting.
I think its something to do with games today just not being what they use to be. Gaming lost its creative innocence, imo.
(Currently making my way through Policenauts thanks to channels like this.)
***** Don't worry, Aly. N64 launch is definitely part of my plan for the channel in 2017.
Thanks for making this, I love this series as I'm a big game magazine fan/collector.
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.
This was my first issue of Gamepro! Although I missed the issue after this, I collected nearly every issue up until mid-1994. Such nostalgia. I miss the feeling I got when I opened every new issue with wonder and excitement.
Gamepro was one on my favorite magazines!
I love the let's reads! I always watch them winding down before bed. I'm not sure if they are popular on your channel, comparatively speaking, but please keep them coming. Thanks!
Thanks! They are actually not at all popular. But I enjoy making them and there is definitely a sub-population of my subscribers who (like yourself) really enjoy them.
Wow, I was 13 in '89, eagerly awaiting the new systems, pouring over these magazines again and again, hanging on every word and screenshot, what a time to be a kid!
Great job as always Chris! The RoadRunner and Atari 2600 ad really through me off. 11 years after the 2600 came out!? Can't wait for the Launch video this year!
Hey man, good to see you again! Glad you liked the vid.
Another great vid. You do some amazing stuff, man.
Gamescrap agreed, this guy is a professional
Gamescrap yes, it's refreshing to have a channel about games without the forced humor of other channels.
Keep 'em coming. Love these episodes.
I kind of have an idea where you do Nintendo Power + Sega Ages + EGM + GamePro in a mega episode all from the same approximate month/issue preferably in the 1993-1994 period at the height of the 16-bit wars. To have a kind of grand view of what the landscape looked like from slightly different perspectives.
A good pick for me would be fall 1994 which is a bit later, but it avoids you retreading the same games from the 1993 EGM you did.
I think issue 3 was the first one where they released monthly. I had that issue. I had this issue, too! The Super Mario Land map brings back memories. I wound up buying SML again for 3DS a few years ago. Still a nostalgic favorite.
After years passed, they said their early artwork just captured video game culture. No specific games.
I appreciate the work that goes into these vids. Thank you. Great vid. I'm subbed to a game mag here in the UK and it costs me £21 every 6 months,which I think is good value.I like digital mags and you can do so much with them but I guess I'm off an era where I like to pick up the paper and read...and smell :)
Thanks! Which magazine is it? I subscribe, through my local news stand, to Retro Gamer...
Classic Gaming Quarterly It used to be Retro Gamer but I'd been a sub for years and wanted a change. Games (TM) mag now. It's focus is on modern gaming. It still has a retro section at the back so I get a small fix which is good enough for me nowadays.
Arcadiality Yeah, Games (TM) is good. I can get that here, as well. Although here the British gaming mags are always a month behind. They must send then on a slow boat.
Classic Gaming Quarterly A slow boat is better than no boat,you could say. I have most old games I want and the PS4 reignited my enthusiasm for modern gaming again. I say that but I loved the Xbox 360 but just grew weary from 2013 ish to Jan 2016. Currently blasting through Axiom Verge. All that PS4 power for a SNES type game :)
Cool vids! Used to have piles of old gaming mags but I tossed 'em, so these vids are great! 👌
Another excellent episode, keep up the good work brother!
Thanks, dude!
Loved getting these classic gaming mags in the mail once a month. Still remember getting Dragon Warrior for free from Nintendo Power.
These videos are among my favorites!
Thanks, John!
Love your presentation. Your stuff is of great quality.
Thanks!
Love this channel.
the very first issue I got was this, it was giving away in Toys R Us. after this GamePro I was hooked. KEEP DOING LETS READ ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! amazing Video. Thank you.
That's cool. Never knew that they did a giveaway for this. Thanks for watching!
Funny thing, when I was in Toys R us, Strider was my first nes game I bought that day with my free issue of GamePro. Also I love how you edit the play footage of the games you are talking about. very very nice touch !
tolust Thanks! I didn't originally do that when I started these videos, but it makes them so much better. So how did you like Strider?
In my child's mind I thought it would be like the arcade version, Instead it was a total different game.. I was disappointed but once I started to play it.. I loved it! Never beat. Thank you for making me feel like a child again with this video ;)
"YOUR WORLD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME" Genesis ad is very nostalgic.
I beat Mega Man 2 many times. That's my favorite Mega Man game for the NES.
This is good video keep up the good work!
_GamePro_ #4 was the very first issue of that magazine that I ever purchased too, way back in (I believe) late September or early October of 1989. Memories...
Very nostalgic and relaxing video, loved it.
Thanks, glad to hear it!
I like these Let's Read Retrogaming Magazine videos and caught up on all of them. It brings back a lot of great memories. I was 10 years old when this issue of GamePro came out. GamePro was one of my favorite gaming magazines back in the day that I was subscribed to. I subscribed to multiple gaming magazines from the late 80s to the mid 2000s, such as Nintendo Power, GamePro, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, and Game Informer. Although it eventually became easier and cheaper to just look up gaming news on the internet, but I still miss the good ole days of gaming magazines. What a great time it was to be a gamer in those days!
Btw, you mentioned you almost got an Atari 7800 Jr. console back in the day, but I don't believe the 7800 ever had a Jr. version. The Atari 2600 Jr. was released in 1986 and was made to be cost reduced and look more modernized like the 7800. The Atari 2600 Jr. was actually the first console I ever owned back in 1986. Then I went on to the 7800, and then experienced one or more consoles from each console generation throughout the years, including this current generation.
Anyway, keep up these great Let's Read videos and I'll look forward to the next!
You will be very happy to know that I am almost done editing the next episode of Let's Read, and that the magazine is Gamepro Issue #1! Should be out sometime this weekend.
Nice, Gamepro issue #1 sounds like it will be a great episode, especially being the very first issue from that great magazine. Thanks for letting me know and I'll look forward to watching it!
Love these vids. I read a lot of magazine scans so seeing what's in the mag isn't the interesting part for me, but moreso hearing the stories and opinions from your perspective back at the time. I'm not from the States so it's cool to learn about that stuff from someone who was there.
Thanks! I always feel like I don't want to spend too much time talking about myself, but I guess the individual perspective is what makes it interesting...
we are the same age... these videos are great! tons of memories!
Glad you liked it! I'd like to do another magazine read-though soon but not sure which to do.
2:19 you can see where that early 90's look came from, looking at some of this late 80's design work.
gamepro mags...this mags always bring a good memory in the past of me
I thought I was the only one that Loved Shanghai. Though I first played it on the first console, the SMS. Today, I play it the Genesis version on my Everdrive. Great episode.
30:48 I never noticed this before, but when Super Mario Bros. 3 shows up in The Wizard, there's film artifacts on the game screen, so they were were just showing the game playing on a reel.
By the way, did you ever wonder how Jenny Lewis knew where the warp whistles were? My theory is that she had the Honey Bee adapter and a Famicom version of the game, which released in Japan the previous year.
Here's what I like about your videos:
1. Your voice: (Which I don't mind because I also have a low voice but slightly higher then yours, if you were able to watch my news updates you would get an idea of how I sound like). Your voice itself explaining the issues (which my sister use to have a nickelodeon magazine), you explaining it just makes it sound calming, almost like I have a second person explaining to me what these mean and what they are. And that's where I like the advertisements because they're just very interesting to look at (Sometimes I binge watch on AsSeenOnTV commercials for a reason, there's a reason I love commercials is because they're trying to get you something that may not be necessary but it's how they do the commercial and the types of products/company they advertise for, money was never on my interests when it came to commercials. Heck, I use to watch a lot of 1980's movie trailes and 1980's commercials, there's a person by the name of 80sCommercialVault that has TONS of 1980's volume commercials, 1970's and 1990's commercials, just classics to look at based on what his family has recorded using VHS or online). There's a reason Ads told me about some of these games. Without it, I would have not known a lot of stuff in my childhood. However, we personally never had nintendo power magazines although we usually get gamecube games that would have nintendo power advertisement cards inside of the games itself along with the manual.
2. Retro gaming: This is the reason why I came to your channel was to find any history on consoles or any games that I haven't heard about that I wanted to see what they looked like and one of those channels (Besides games n' play) was yours. And you summed up one of my favorite consoles, the PS1 very well. I've seen a documentary of it many years ago back in 2011 and one of those games I remember hearing about was Silent Hill and Resident Evil as the scariest games to people. And I agree that they both are scary, although Resident Evil to me made me jumpscared more then Silent Hill.) Anyway, your interest on retro gaming between 1985 and 2000 (or so) is what I really love about your channel because I'm a huge fan of retro gaming. There's just nothing better then to turn on the console (without playing online or being online at all times), play the games and spend hours on it. Since I use emulation a lot, I can play games that I don't even own and have it in my computer. And it was part of my childhood with multiplayer as well. So that's why I love retro gaming.
And 3. Your explainations, Q&As, and the launch videos are nice to listen to. Even if I'm doing something else, I can just have the audio from yoru video on my speakers in the background of my house while I do something else (even working on homework). The launch videos is what I really go for but I decided to try you talking about the issues and the moment you go to the next few pages, I love it. Personally I wish I would be able to find a free copy of these in some place like a museum or to have for just a rental in my house and then give it back to someone that really wants to own it. I would look through the magazine to find three things:
One, the reviews and text,
Two, the game titles and the screenshots,
Three, advertisements. (I'm in love with advertisements by the way but the Ads nowadays don't excite me as much as the past has, the past had a lot more fun in the commercials similar to japanese advertisements they have ever since the 1980s. The game watch JPN commercial comes to my mind when I think of classic japanese commercials because of that catchy tune.)
That's all I have for now that I like your channel. I thought I subscribed on my main account but I didn't, I subscribed on my ExtremeReviewer101 account but not my SuperFlashDriver account. So I did the same to my SFD account to subscribe to you.
were you high on meth when you wrote this?
CGQ man has a great deep voice too, pleasant to listen to. Would be great if he would do the trailer for a blockbuster or, yes, a massive video game.. As long as it’s retro inspired 🤓
That strider game was so hard. The graphics at the time were revolutionary, title screen gave me goosebumps
Good episode. Pls make more!
Weird timing. I just got Revenge of the 'Gator in the mail yesterday and it's actually a pretty fun first year release for the Game Boy!
Hey CGQ, I remember when I was a kid I used to watch a show called "Video Power" which went through different iterations but I remember some game show elements where the contestants would play different games. I remember watching the Neo Geo games and drooling over the awesome graphics! I could never afford one (or the games for that matter) but would love to see a video on the launch of it or a video on "Video Power", "GamePro" or any other video game show.
I will definitely do an episode on the Neo-Geo. I would probably not make a video about those TV shows only because I would be worried about having copyright issues.
Definitely would be cool to see the Neo-Geo story! Keep up the great work!
Jeff Sepulveda Thanks!
At 3:30 I was worried the video was going to stop and you'd have to pay to see the full video like some other gaming channel does now. So relieved!
Wow, people do that? That sucks.
The internet is pretty much on fire over the video that was released yesterday. Well, I'm off to go play Classic Games in my Room. Love these mag videos!
Your videos are so soothing
Yes about time!
wow man this si culture, awesome stuff like really big nostalgia, like travel back in time, great!!!
the old adverts for the games look so misleading lol.
3:00 the reason for that is many states considered raffles to be a form of gambling(?) and had laws against that, but skill based contests where approved of where if there are multiple winners (basically almost everyone), they're then allowed to choose the winner by random draws. Kind of the same line as 'skill-testing questions' back in the day.
Enjoyable video. I remember that the Disney channel wasn't available on my cable service . When they offered it for free for a week, I thought it was the best. I loved the Mickey mouse club!
i hope you do more Let's Read w/ EGM and GamePro. I collected egm for the 8-16bit yrs. I wish i had never gotten rid of them.
They probably called the previews "ProViews" because it's GamePro.
ProTip: yes
Right u r, Sir! (BAJ)
Wow, never thought I'd see earbuds in 1989 :o
Yeah. I think they first time I ever saw earbuds was when I got my Game Boy for Christmas that year, as it came with a pair.
I think the oldest magazine I own is an issue of Game Players--but it's not the Game Players (or Ultra Game Players) that Chris Slate worked for. It's much older than that. It's from 1989 or 1988 and it's actually written on kinda newsprint paper. I remember it clearly. It talked about a game called Amagon, had single screens and descriptions for like 100 games, and ended with an article about the Life Cycle--an actual exercise bike that you connect to your NES. I should dig it out of my closet for old time's sake.
I remember that issue! Man...so long ago...😊
19:25 The Atari 2600 was actually doing quite well in the late 1980s. The $50 "2600 Jr" model was a hit, and the wave of "red box" cartridges were some of the best ever seen on the system. S ebody dumped Atari's internal sales data on Digital Press years ago, and it showed the 2600 Jr sold something like 6 million units. My number may be off, but it was millions and profitable. Very surprising considering the NES dominance, but Atari's cheap price made it a great starter option. And, as we all know, Atari 2600 games are still being made to this day, thanks to Atari Age.
Daniel Thomas MacInnes I realized my 2600 sucked in 1984. I couldn’t wait for the next thing and even my Coleco wasn’t quite enough.
18:20 I thought the Uforce looked so cool as a kid. I am glad my mom never let me get one.
Great video. I've been toying with the idea of doing something like this but based on magazines I actually worked on. I'm totally stealing this format :)
You should! I think you'd have some great insights.
you skipped a page at 15:37 how could you pass up clash at demonhead. that game is awesome
As a Zelda II fan I was interested in read about the question that was written in and their answer. If you pause at 26:04 you can read that the writer is stuck at palace 3 (Island Palace) because they need fairy magic.
The authors incorrectly say to use jump in Mido town to get on top of the church and into the basement. If you follow their advice you will get the downthrust which won't help you enter the third palace. The correct answer is to get the water of life from a cave in the first part of the game and bring it to a woman in Mido town.
I just thought it was interesting to see how inaccurate information could probably be back then. (Also that poor kid.)
P.S. I love these videos. I think they're actually more interesting to me than the launch ones which are what drew me to the channel initially.
That's freaking GamePro for you! Glad you like the videos, and agree that they are definitely quite a bit different than the launch shows. I certainly have no plans to stop making either. I'm just trying to get a different episode out-the-door at the moment, but will then hopefully have a new read-through to work on.
Glad to hear it. Hopefully I didn't come across as down on the launch shows as I really like them as well. I have a bunch of old EGMs lying around if you'd be interested to take a look, BTW.
No, you didn't come off that way at all. What issues of EGM do you have?
Damn did they ever make a sequel or remake that bad ass looking Ninja Golf? I can't recall ever hearing about that game so I've definitely never played it but it looks like it could be fun for a few holes
Speaking of River City Ransom, I just got River City: Rival Showdown as well for the 3DS!
Yes! Please keep making more of these video game magazine review type of videos. Hopefully, someday you will cover the Official Nintendo Player's Guide. That player's guide is a very nostalgic piece of art to me. Keep up the good work!
Thanks! That's a good idea. I'll keep that in mind...
you're one of my favorite youtubers and your voice is suited to narrating just about anything, man. I just wish there were more videos and that they came out more frequently. do you have patreon?
Hey Tristan. Thanks so much for your kind words! Trust me, I too wish I uploaded more often. Unfortunately it's hard trying to balance work and family with UA-cam, especially when my videos are pretty labor-intensive to make. In an ideal world, I would win the lottery so that I could just stay home and make videos for fun! I don't have a Patreon account, but I appreciate that you'd ask. I don't really feel comfortable asking people to donate money to the show when I have such an erratic upload "schedule". If you'd like to help out though, you can buy a "Classic Gaming Quarterly" t-shirt here: amzn.to/2fq4HmC That way the show gets some money, but you get something cool in return. Thanks!!
Arnold palmer golf is the most underrated sports game ever, it's so easily the best golf game ever made
have you played outlaw golf in the og xbox? hate golf but that game and stick man golf on my phone are some fun games
I haven't, but I'll try to remember to check that one out the next time I hook up the Xbox. Thanks!
Mario Land's music was fuckin awesome though. i still get the songs stuck in my head all these years later.
Great mag great review. I loved super mario land!!!
Great vídeo, here is a like from Argentina.
Golf games are often great fun. I'm not into golf otherwise. For Mega Man 2, I strictly follow the weakness order, with Air Man having vulnerability to the standard shot. I deal with Metal Man fifth. Tengen is definitely pronounced with a hard G sound, but the ten-jen pronunciation is very common. I really enjoy the magazine read alongs. Thank you.
Thanks for another great video! You mention that a screen capture in the magazine had to have come from an RGB monitor; I am just curious what prompted you to believe that?
The image looks pixel-perfect and has well-defined scanlines. Most screenshots back then were either composite screen captures, or were literally someone pointing a camera at a TV screen. Thanks!
The Power Glove was the No Man's Sky of peripherals.
Andrew Elias more like ljn games were always the no man's sky of games back then.
ionicblood666 - Got so bad everybody would say "If see a rainbow anywhere you're guaranteed there's shit at the other end of the rainbow."😂😂😂
i remember this issue
not gonna lie, @ 2:46 -- those glasses are neat af
also @CGQ -- i didn't know you could play shanghai -- have you ever tried "go"?
what magazines can you subscribe to now for 20$ a year, a single issue is like 15$ now for 80 pages
even this magazine review is good....thats some talent
Nice vid Chris. Are you going to the Sac Gamers Expo in December?
I didn't know about it. Might be fun. Do they usually have a lot of retro stuff? I have no real interest in modern games...
Do you have any Sega Visions?
I do! And that's a great idea for the next episode in this series. Thanks!
which brand is that receiver ? I also like to play my games through older stereo equipment
Hey! It is a Pioneer SX-828.
Classic Gaming Quarterly it looks really cool! I don't know exactly why, but I hope to play my classic consoles though a tube amplifier someday, hope to get my hands on a McIntosh tube amp, but so expensive$$
isunshin999 That would be awesome!
i love this concept of youtube chanel
Omg why have i never heard of or played ninja golf😲😲😲 ,, i must plat this gem of a game atleast 1 time for the fun time
Also, I play SML for the first time a couple of years ago and I loved it 👍