#EGM Magazine

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Angelina Jolie for EGM Magazine (2000)

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Marc Ecko’s Physical Science Mindlabs apparel ad print in EGM magazine issue n°140 (2001)

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Arrow Flash magazine Ad, by Renovation Products for SEGA Genesis, 1991.

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Metroid Prime

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Welcome to V Reviews. My name is V. And in this latest installment music video review, I will be covering JILUKA’s latest incredible track “VENΦM”. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the band, here’s a short primer on them: they are a ヴィジュアル系 (Visual Kei) one with one of the more unique sounds I have ever heard. The only thing that can sum it up is their own words, “Electro Gothic Metal”, or EGM for short. They originated back in February of 2013, and since then they have only had one member chance in JaiL (drums) in 2015 during their restart with their current lineup: Ricko (vocals) Sena (guitar/songwriting), Boogie (bass) and Zyean (drums). The song that I am about to cover is fresh off of the corresponding digital single “VENΦM” that dropped on September 29, 2023. (Continue reading...) Also available in: Nederlands | Español | 日本語

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Downloading old issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly, as one does.

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Illustrations from a 2006 issue of the Brazilian EGM magazine.

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what was the deal with games media and forums during the 2000s being so harsh and in many cases downright unfair towards games that wanted to experiment or do something interesting? part of me feels that is why the 2010s had so many massive game series pumping out boring and "safe" games.

We were a lot more ignorant back then. You have to figure that games media has a definitive age, right. Now we had video game magazines going ball the way back to the 80's, but it feels like there was a real boom in game magazines in the 90's with things like EGM, Gamepro, Game Players, Game Fan, Nintendo Power, Game Informer, Edge, Next Generation, PC Gamer, CGW, Tips & Tricks, PSM, etc.

But the age of the industry back then... even if a lot of the writers were in their 20's, 30's, and sometimes even 40's, the readers were all pretty young. I started reading gaming magazines when I was 11. And to some degree it felt like the industry grew up with us. It also reflected the wider era as a whole.

We used to be a more innocent people. More ignorant. Unaware of the wider world at large. American white males (the primary demographic for gaming magazines) lived in this tiny little bubble where they got to feel like they were kings. The world was their oyster. Racism? Nah man, civil rights solved that back in the 1950's. Racism is over. We beat the nazis in the 40's, they don't exist anymore either. Women belong in the kitchen making us a sandwich. I'm American, I'm straight, I'm white, I'm a man, and that makes me the center of the known universe. As long as I have beer, boobs, and bacon, my life is perfect.

And the thing about being comfortable is that people like to be comfortable. Comfort usually means cozying up with something you already know you're going to like. A known quantity. So that's this era, right: repeating familiar ideas and milking them for all its worth, completely unchallenged, because nobody is comfortable when they are being challenged.

But widespread, modern internet access began to spread across the world. Smartphones and social media connected us more closely than we ever have before, both for better and worse. And suddenly all those Straight, white, American males are rubbing elbows with very different international cultures than they're used to, and the perspective on American life begins to shift. The veil is lifted. Eyes are opened for the first time. The world is a very different place than what most Americans thought it was.

Racism? Not actually solved. Nazis? They're still out there, actually. Women? Minorities? Equal rights are not as equal as it sounded. Plus, we trample all over other cultures constantly. And bad actors are rapidly trying to muddy the waters so they can continue to operate unopposed. Welcome to the real world.

Some people embraced this new knowledge with open arms. Learning, and growing, and changing, seeing fresh perspectives and new ideas. And other people just wanted to stay comfortable, sticking their heads in the sand, and trying to deny what was now right in front of them.

My point is, as a people, a worldwide planetary entity, we're a lot more diverse now. We're a lot smarter and more accepting of others. We're a lot more mature.

And then there's something I haven't touched on and its the fact that corporations love "comfort", too. They love being able to avoid taking risks and feeding us the exact same content in perpetuity. But with the indie game boom, more people than ever before can put their art out into the world, which just drives diversity even more.

My point being that we used to be pretty dumb and ignorant, but some of us are less dumb and ignorant nowadays.

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Here's some scans from a 1995 EGM magazine (I forgot Wich one)

•the magazine mentions it screenshots of a 20% build of EWJ2

•Some of the Early sprite work which reuses a lot from the first game and an unused one from inflated head

•Early title card for the games Wich resemble the ones from the first game

•An screenshot of a cut weapon called Slime Gun

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Angelina Jolie for egm magazine issue n°130 (2000)

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Batman, The Video Game magazine Ad by Sunsoft for the SEGA Genesis, 1990.

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during my downtime at work i like to read old gaming magazines on my good friend archive.org and there was an EGM issue from the late 90s in which they said that games with 3d graphics had finally started to have good gameplay instead of just good graphics…oooph