I used to get Sega Visions by mail as well after I sent in my registration card for the master system and it is true that they would show up randomly to my house. I always looked forward to getting them only because alot of magazines except for this one didn't really cover the master system anymore because it was on its way out...another SEGA magazine with the same problem was MEGA PLAY...it was bi monthly but ended up coming out randomly whenever as well...I do remember that those came out in the very early 90s as well...around the same time as Sega Visions. I still have them all though stored away somewhere!
I didn't know about the news letter, like their answer to the Nintendo Fun Club. It was sold in stores I remember buying a issue when I was a kid. For the arcade section at least it would go beyond coverage of just Sega platforms. For instance it had a preview of Street Fighter II Champion Edition when it was first coming out.
I definitely remember seeing Sega Visions at the grocery store by my house, but it might have been only one time. I usually got GamePro at the same store but the store didn't keep that around for too long either. I think the store had a few other gaming magazines sometimes, like GameFan. Later on there was the Official Dreamcast Magazine, and there was also a Sega Saturn magazine, though not in the US.
I was a Nintendo kid, so I wouldn't have bothered much with Sega stuff around that time period, but here in the UK we had something that sounds very similar to this, only for Nintendo. It was called Club Nintendo. There was an application form to become a Club Nintendo member included in with the NES (and possibly with games too), and once it was filled in and sent away, members had the magazines sent to them every two months. The mag was written here in England, so I don't know whether an alternative version existed in North America. Although it was totally a promotional tool, reviewing all Nintendo stuff positively rather than objectively (little did I realise that at the time!), I still think it was good quality, and I always looked forward to the day when my magazine would arrive through my letterbox. I especially looked forward to game previews, which in pre-internet times were always the first chance to find out about new games and hardware. I got my NES in 1990, and Club Nintendo probably lasted 2 or 3 years after that. If only I could find where I put all my copies... Great video yet again, Erin. And cool T-shirt too!
I'd love if you did a "Read with me" of your collection. I remember this magazine as a kid and unfortunately I could never convince my mom to sign me up and send that money order. So actually getting to see some of these would be great! Thanks!
I remember subscribing at some point, which was probably sometime in 1993, as I had gotten a Genesis for Christmas in ‘92. As you mentioned in the video, I probably got the first few for free and then just didn’t continue getting them when it came time to pay for more. I had so many of the Nintendo or Sega newsletters or magazines or whatever that were put out by the different gaming companies that would advertise in EGM or GamePro or whatever else I was reading. Some may have come from returning postcards or ads that had been included with the games. I really wish I could remember what some of the other ones were.
Oh man, I used to have these. I used to fill out the card and waited a few weeks for my magazines to come to my house. Those were the best days. I used to take mine to school and read it in class sometimes. I have in my attic the official Dreamcast magazines , but only a few of those and a few Playstation magazines, Game Informer. Man, those days were awesome!
i always enjoy these magazine videos and the live streams looking through the old magazines. Gamefan magazine was one of my favorites and Next Generation is an interesting magazine because of the ridiculously high quality of the covers and paper they used in it for the first couple of years.
I received Sega Visions for a while when I was a kid. I think I got a free trial subscription with either the console or a certain game, but that subscription eventually ran out and my mother wasn't willing to pay to renew. Oddly enough, I remember receiving the last issue that you showed, so maybe the magazine actually died before my subscription ran out? Maybe free subscriptions were given out as promos, but others also had the option to buy the magazine? Even then I knew that it was just an advertising gimmick, but it was still a pretty cool way to learn about new games. Also, I remember they had a great contest where readers had to fill in the speech bubbles of a short Hulk comic; to this day, I still crack up thinking about the winner.
I remember getting a few Sega Visions magazines in the mail! I never continued my subscriptions after the free period, sadly. The most memorable thing about it, for me, was that they printed the first Sonic Archie comic in one, and after that , I had to start collecting Sonic comics. (Huge Sonic fan as a kid.)
I have never seen Sega Vision magazine growing up besides Nintendo Power, GamePro and electronic gaming monthly magazines I can see why Sega Vision didn't last forever, Great Video Erin.😉👍
Wow. I remember the Sega Channel. Wasn't without its issues at the time though. Numerous times the cable company had to come out to try to figure out why it wasn't working.
I had Nintendo, and then a Genesis. I was still in Junior High at the time, but I do not believe that my parents paid for a subscription. I do remember enjoying when the Visions issues came in the mail sporadically. I also remember the few issues that I owned having more details in them, so I must have gotten the better ones. I enjoyed them. I love your shirt, Erin, and you look beautiful as always.
I had never heard of this magazine before. I had a Genesis, and I remember the card that came with it but I don't remember it mentioning free magazines or anything. Glad you talked about this or I never would've known it existed!
Time as kid in the 80s. Can't wait to get older, drive, have a family. Now as an adult, i want to be a kid again when shit was simple. I never had a clue these Magazines existed, other than Nintendo power and later Game informer.
Hard to know about a magazine you never see in stores. I had a Genesis and I don’t think I saw any kind of ad for the magazine packaged with the console.
Wow, I remember getting a few issues of this for free back in the day!! Unfortunately they got recycled (along with my all of my Nintendo Powers from the early-mid 90s) when I graduated college and moved all of my stuff out of my parents house ☹️. Too bad because now I’d like to go back through some of those old magazines….eBay, here I come!
I started reading gaming magazines in 1996, after Sega Visions stopped publishing. I had never even heard of it. Nowadays, I don't read any gaming magazines. The last one I read was Game Informer and that was a long time ago.
Thank you for sharing your Sega Visions Mags. Fun FACT if you look into the Magazine with SONIC in the cover. One of my Drawings was published. It's the GOLDEN AXE dragon and I even included my address where I used to live. I remember getting allot of Fan mail. Good old times.
This subject matter flew right under my radar back in the day, making it another example of learning something new with Erin Plays channel. Side note: I always considered Sega an equal to Nintendo, but you can just tell with their magazines and other projects they exposed themselves as not having the polish that Nintendo had. I never saw a Nintendo Power and thought "that looks cheap" but these Sega magazines kinda do. Sega was always gritty...i wonder if it got popular in the 90s because society itself became gritty and people assumed Sega's lack of polish was just being trendy, when in reality they cut corners in alot of places.
I remember an oddball Magazine like that from back when I was a kid. They featured a one page off-shoot comic where Sonic beat the crap out of an eerily familiar looking plumber... That was the one Sega Magazine I ever saw. Unless you count the official, real Sonic Comics.
Like some others said, I forgot about these ever existed. I definitely do have firsthand memories of Nintendo Power and EGM. All good things must come to an end, unfortunately. :( I have this one weird memory of seeing early previews of Twilight Princess in Nintendo Power, wondering what the hell happened to that game, and just like that, it was out... And I didn't realize until later it was the same game. Time was a weird thing when you're a kid.
1:36 I'm not sure if Nintendo Power had started to appear in stores regularly at the time . It was originally distributed through mail order subscriptions. It was only after cross platform publications like Game Informer, EGM and GamePro were taking off that -Power started to be seen on shelves more.
Team Sega Newsletter was Sega's answer to Nintendo Fun Club News. They even followed their release strategy. 7 issues of FCN, 7 issues of Team Sega. First issue of NP was free, first issue of Sega Visions was free. Only the first issue of Sega Visions was free. If you didn't subscribe, they'd cut you off. I have all 25 issues. There were some decent exclusives, some games, that weren't even released. Oh, and the reason they shut it down was that Sega wasn't doing well, specifically in the USA. Sega Visions wasn't based on a Japanese publication, unlike Nintendo Power. So the decreased popularity in the US, spelled the end of Sega Visions, as well.
Those are some very nice, clean magazines, even if they are mostly ads. In great condition too. Thanks for this! Never knew they existed, I would've adored these as a kid and loved my Genesis.
EGM, GamePro, and Next Generation were my magazines. Those were the days when I first discovered businesses and stocks existed. I followed the N64 and Playstation to success.
I ordered a subscription to Sega Visions in December of 1993, but only received issues 17 & 18. I remember being amused that only 3rd party games received criticism, particularly the Sega CD port of Mortal Kombat being heavily criticized for its loading times. Thanks Erin, enjoy the rest of your day!
By 1995 I believe most Sega people had moved on to the Sega Saturn, so if there wasn't much coverage of that in the magazine, people weren't interested anymore. It's not like today, were there is a sustained interest year after year on a particular old console.
Great review Erin. I also did not know these magazines existed, and I think they would have been awesome to have as a Sega boy growing up in the 90s. They're pretty expensive on eBay these days by the looks of things. Thank you for bringing this to my attention :)
EGM, and Gamepro were the go to rags back then. Gamepro had a slick and 90's presentation. It was Nintendo Power for kids who didn't have a Nintendo Power subscription, of course including Sega and TurboGrafX content. EGM was more often than not more "player based" and was more sterile, but more informative and usually more honest.
I LOVED Sega Visions as a kid! I just kept sending in the cards everytime my subscription ran out and never had to pay for them xD I remember seeing the Lunar 2 Eternal Blue article and I just HAD to have it!
I own several issues from back in the day... I could've sworn they were sold in stores, at least during the latter half of its life. I'm sure many of those issues have been digitized to be read online nowadays
I knew of sega visions and I did subscribed to it, but I never got any magazines. So I got electronic gaming monthly for any info on new sega releases. I think it faded because of Nintendo's popularity. Good job covering it, Erin
Early 90s kids are scratching our heads because our parents threw out those registration cards Christmas night/before hooking up the system for our birthdays!
I was just searching about that magazine yesterday and just see this notification... wow... such a coincidence. Btw, I loved Sega as a kid, grew up with Sonic and Shinobi was my thing. Never had that magazine but had some other good ones
2:36 Boo! My inner Sega Genesis kid disapproves 😡 (Joking) Honestly each of my friends were mainly SNES kids back in the day. My older brother was the main gamer of the family & a pure Sega fanboy from the Genesis onward which by extension made me one as well. Oddly enough I don't remember him getting any of these Sega magazines & he was obsessed with everything Sega. He even got the ill advised Sega 32x add on.
My opinion of Sega Visions was while it was good, I think it lacked the budget power of Nintendo Power or Gamepro, partially due to the fact that it was free. So while Sega decided to make it for free, I suspect that the publishing costs got too high for Sega to send it to everyone so they didn't put as much money into the brand or make as many issues.
I'm 42, so this was right in my wheelhouse as a kid. I had several issues and I don't believe I subscribed, so either they were sold somewhere in stores, or my mom picked them up from garage sales.
I don't remember if I saw it in stores or not but it must have been if it had a bar code. I do remember having a few issues but no idea where I got them.
Was Nintendo Power sold in stores? I never saw it on any magazine rack in the Denver metro area. Sega Visions was trash. It felt the the magazine called Video Games & Computer Entertainment, but even more watered down. That's because the publishers were big in the pre-crash era writing fluff pieces for games back then. It just didn't translate into the new era of gaming. The Sega Challenge newsletter was better. At least I got my After Burner poster and Power Strike from that.
It absolutely was! At least, it was when I was in elementary school (late 2000s). I vividly recall NP calling out how the cover for subscribers was different from the newsstand cover.
I was reading it during the N64 era, but yeah it was sold in stores up until the last issues! I’d see it at Borders. And yeah, the Sega challenge DID look pretty sweet. That’s cool you got some sick posters 😎
Yes it was sold in stores-maybe not at the very beginning but certainly by the first year. I bought most of my issues in the store until I subscribed around vol. 85
This was a freebie if you filled out and sent in the product registration card with your Sega console. I did for my Genesis and Sega CD so I got two copies lol
I have no idea where they came from, but I remember having 2 issues of Visions... or rather 2 copies of the same issue; I remember Sonic being on the cover, and I think it was a promo for Sonic 3. I don't remember a thing about it, though; I had Nintendo Power, GamePro, and for a time, Game Players. Side note: What is that song that comes in at about 2:55? The one after the Streets of Rage tune.
@@ErinPlays That would be why I can't place it; I haven't found much of interest for the Saturn, so I never really dove into the library. Thanks; I'll have to check that soundtrack out!
Alright, it needs to be said. "Genesis does what Nintendont"... that just always seemed like a joke to me lol. I was an SNES kid too and experienced great games like Yoshi's Island, Super Mario Kart, the Megaman X series, Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy 2 and 3, and the list goes on. At the time, I was like how do people even try to imply Genesis can ever match up to SNES when you compare the games lmao 😂😂😂😂😂
I remember these magazines Nintendo power Sega Visions it’s nostalgia at it finest these were essentially advertising but were really enjoyable to read since they had articles about the games and upcoming releases 🤓☕️☕️
Wow, as a gamer who grew up during the Snes and Gen era, I had zero idea this existed. Interesting.
I think I had some of those even here in Brazil
4:05 Kid Chameleon - another Cool 90s dude. Maybe friends with Niles Nemo? 🕶
they totally eat pizza together and high five :D
I used to get Sega Visions by mail as well after I sent in my registration card for the master system and it is true that they would show up randomly to my house. I always looked forward to getting them only because alot of magazines except for this one didn't really cover the master system anymore because it was on its way out...another SEGA magazine with the same problem was MEGA PLAY...it was bi monthly but ended up coming out randomly whenever as well...I do remember that those came out in the very early 90s as well...around the same time as Sega Visions. I still have them all though stored away somewhere!
Nobody brings the retro obscurity to life like you, Erin! Thank you for being so damn awesome all the time! ☺️
thanks so much for continuing to watch my stuff!
I didn't know about the news letter, like their answer to the Nintendo Fun Club. It was sold in stores I remember buying a issue when I was a kid. For the arcade section at least it would go beyond coverage of just Sega platforms. For instance it had a preview of Street Fighter II Champion Edition when it was first coming out.
I definitely remember seeing Sega Visions at the grocery store by my house, but it might have been only one time. I usually got GamePro at the same store but the store didn't keep that around for too long either. I think the store had a few other gaming magazines sometimes, like GameFan.
Later on there was the Official Dreamcast Magazine, and there was also a Sega Saturn magazine, though not in the US.
Being a die hard Sega fan I had no idea this existed. I always wondered as a kid but never really looked into it!
Nicely done Erin!
That Kay Bee Toys coupon was an unexpected treat 3:30
I was a Nintendo kid, so I wouldn't have bothered much with Sega stuff around that time period, but here in the UK we had something that sounds very similar to this, only for Nintendo. It was called Club Nintendo. There was an application form to become a Club Nintendo member included in with the NES (and possibly with games too), and once it was filled in and sent away, members had the magazines sent to them every two months. The mag was written here in England, so I don't know whether an alternative version existed in North America.
Although it was totally a promotional tool, reviewing all Nintendo stuff positively rather than objectively (little did I realise that at the time!), I still think it was good quality, and I always looked forward to the day when my magazine would arrive through my letterbox. I especially looked forward to game previews, which in pre-internet times were always the first chance to find out about new games and hardware.
I got my NES in 1990, and Club Nintendo probably lasted 2 or 3 years after that. If only I could find where I put all my copies...
Great video yet again, Erin. And cool T-shirt too!
That's awesome :) And thank you very much!
I'd love if you did a "Read with me" of your collection. I remember this magazine as a kid and unfortunately I could never convince my mom to sign me up and send that money order. So actually getting to see some of these would be great! Thanks!
How I miss the magazine era. I was always a fan for the Gamefan magazine.
I remember subscribing at some point, which was probably sometime in 1993, as I had gotten a Genesis for Christmas in ‘92. As you mentioned in the video, I probably got the first few for free and then just didn’t continue getting them when it came time to pay for more. I had so many of the Nintendo or Sega newsletters or magazines or whatever that were put out by the different gaming companies that would advertise in EGM or GamePro or whatever else I was reading. Some may have come from returning postcards or ads that had been included with the games. I really wish I could remember what some of the other ones were.
Oh man, I used to have these. I used to fill out the card and waited a few weeks for my magazines to come to my house. Those were the best days. I used to take mine to school and read it in class sometimes. I have in my attic the official Dreamcast magazines , but only a few of those and a few Playstation magazines, Game Informer. Man, those days were awesome!
i always enjoy these magazine videos and the live streams looking through the old magazines. Gamefan magazine was one of my favorites and Next Generation is an interesting magazine because of the ridiculously high quality of the covers and paper they used in it for the first couple of years.
I received Sega Visions for a while when I was a kid. I think I got a free trial subscription with either the console or a certain game, but that subscription eventually ran out and my mother wasn't willing to pay to renew. Oddly enough, I remember receiving the last issue that you showed, so maybe the magazine actually died before my subscription ran out? Maybe free subscriptions were given out as promos, but others also had the option to buy the magazine?
Even then I knew that it was just an advertising gimmick, but it was still a pretty cool way to learn about new games. Also, I remember they had a great contest where readers had to fill in the speech bubbles of a short Hulk comic; to this day, I still crack up thinking about the winner.
I remember getting a few Sega Visions magazines in the mail! I never continued my subscriptions after the free period, sadly.
The most memorable thing about it, for me, was that they printed the first Sonic Archie comic in one, and after that , I had to start collecting Sonic comics. (Huge Sonic fan as a kid.)
It's great seeing these old mags. I read the Retrogamer publication here in the UK that feels like a great callback to the 90s.
I totally have a bunch of these, including the one you’re reading in the thumbnail! Thank you for this trip down memory lane. *sigh* nostalgia...
I have never seen Sega Vision magazine growing up besides Nintendo Power, GamePro and electronic gaming monthly magazines I can see why Sega Vision didn't last forever, Great Video Erin.😉👍
I had no idea Sega vision even existed! Great video Erin
Thank you! 😁
Wow. I remember the Sega Channel. Wasn't without its issues at the time though. Numerous times the cable company had to come out to try to figure out why it wasn't working.
I had Nintendo, and then a Genesis. I was still in Junior High at the time, but I do not believe that my parents paid for a subscription. I do remember enjoying when the Visions issues came in the mail sporadically. I also remember the few issues that I owned having more details in them, so I must have gotten the better ones. I enjoyed them. I love your shirt, Erin, and you look beautiful as always.
I had never heard of this magazine before. I had a Genesis, and I remember the card that came with it but I don't remember it mentioning free magazines or anything. Glad you talked about this or I never would've known it existed!
The price tag gave the magazine a dollar value that could be written off under promotional expenses for tax purposes
In the UK my favourite gaming magazine was called Total - so many happy memories of looking through each issue obsessively 😔
I, too, can read Wikipedia.
Time as kid in the 80s. Can't wait to get older, drive, have a family. Now as an adult, i want to be a kid again when shit was simple. I never had a clue these Magazines existed, other than Nintendo power and later Game informer.
Hard to know about a magazine you never see in stores. I had a Genesis and I don’t think I saw any kind of ad for the magazine packaged with the console.
Wow, I remember getting a few issues of this for free back in the day!! Unfortunately they got recycled (along with my all of my Nintendo Powers from the early-mid 90s) when I graduated college and moved all of my stuff out of my parents house ☹️. Too bad because now I’d like to go back through some of those old magazines….eBay, here I come!
I wish I had registered my Genesis at the time to get a cool Sega magazine. I never knew this even existed.
I started reading gaming magazines in 1996, after Sega Visions stopped publishing. I had never even heard of it. Nowadays, I don't read any gaming magazines. The last one I read was Game Informer and that was a long time ago.
Thank you for sharing your Sega Visions Mags. Fun FACT if you look into the Magazine with SONIC in the cover. One of my Drawings was published. It's the GOLDEN AXE dragon and I even included my address where I used to live. I remember getting allot of Fan mail. Good old times.
This subject matter flew right under my radar back in the day, making it another example of learning something new with Erin Plays channel. Side note: I always considered Sega an equal to Nintendo, but you can just tell with their magazines and other projects they exposed themselves as not having the polish that Nintendo had. I never saw a Nintendo Power and thought "that looks cheap" but these Sega magazines kinda do. Sega was always gritty...i wonder if it got popular in the 90s because society itself became gritty and people assumed Sega's lack of polish was just being trendy, when in reality they cut corners in alot of places.
Good observation! Yeah, Sega during this era was VERY "edgy 90s," ha.
I remember an oddball Magazine like that from back when I was a kid. They featured a one page off-shoot comic where Sonic beat the crap out of an eerily familiar looking plumber...
That was the one Sega Magazine I ever saw. Unless you count the official, real Sonic Comics.
Like some others said, I forgot about these ever existed. I definitely do have firsthand memories of Nintendo Power and EGM. All good things must come to an end, unfortunately. :(
I have this one weird memory of seeing early previews of Twilight Princess in Nintendo Power, wondering what the hell happened to that game, and just like that, it was out... And I didn't realize until later it was the same game. Time was a weird thing when you're a kid.
1:36 I'm not sure if Nintendo Power had started to appear in stores regularly at the time . It was originally distributed through mail order subscriptions. It was only after cross platform publications like Game Informer, EGM and GamePro were taking off that -Power started to be seen on shelves more.
haha, firebrand's tongue on your ghost 'n goblins shirt! awesome.
Right?! 😜
Nice to see Sega Visions with Ghostbusters and Moonwalker
Team Sega Newsletter was Sega's answer to Nintendo Fun Club News. They even followed their release strategy. 7 issues of FCN, 7 issues of Team Sega. First issue of NP was free, first issue of Sega Visions was free. Only the first issue of Sega Visions was free. If you didn't subscribe, they'd cut you off. I have all 25 issues. There were some decent exclusives, some games, that weren't even released.
Oh, and the reason they shut it down was that Sega wasn't doing well, specifically in the USA. Sega Visions wasn't based on a Japanese publication, unlike Nintendo Power. So the decreased popularity in the US, spelled the end of Sega Visions, as well.
Those are some very nice, clean magazines, even if they are mostly ads. In great condition too.
Thanks for this! Never knew they existed, I would've adored these as a kid and loved my Genesis.
Thanks for watching!
EGM, GamePro, and Next Generation were my magazines. Those were the days when I first discovered businesses and stocks existed. I followed the N64 and Playstation to success.
I remember the old days of all the Sega stuff being in the Disney theme parks. Good times. I wanna try and hunt down that Toejam and Earl issue now.
I ordered a subscription to Sega Visions in December of 1993, but only received issues 17 & 18. I remember being amused that only 3rd party games received criticism, particularly the Sega CD port of Mortal Kombat being heavily criticized for its loading times.
Thanks Erin, enjoy the rest of your day!
I had a few of these and the master system only magazine back in the day. Fun video!
I was one of the few people at my school who was into the master system; I never subscribed to Nintendo Power, but I did get this.
By 1995 I believe most Sega people had moved on to the Sega Saturn, so if there wasn't much coverage of that in the magazine, people weren't interested anymore. It's not like today, were there is a sustained interest year after year on a particular old console.
I remember getting some issues when the sega saturn was coming out. It was mostly previews hyping the saturn up.
I've never seen one of those in my life in person but I have heard of it
Great review Erin. I also did not know these magazines existed, and I think they would have been awesome to have as a Sega boy growing up in the 90s. They're pretty expensive on eBay these days by the looks of things. Thank you for bringing this to my attention :)
I was subscribed to this magazine and loved it so much! Still a huge fan of Sega to this day!
Never knew this existed. Also that Ghost N Goblins shirt is the shit.
EGM, and Gamepro were the go to rags back then. Gamepro had a slick and 90's presentation. It was Nintendo Power for kids who didn't have a Nintendo Power subscription, of course including Sega and TurboGrafX content. EGM was more often than not more "player based" and was more sterile, but more informative and usually more honest.
I once asked someone if they got Sega Visions. He replied, "Like, do I see Tails and stuff?"
Ha! I see what you did there 👀
I LOVED Sega Visions as a kid! I just kept sending in the cards everytime my subscription ran out and never had to pay for them xD
I remember seeing the Lunar 2 Eternal Blue article and I just HAD to have it!
We had most of these! I’m looking into getting a few back. Great video Erin
That’s awesome! You totally should get some again. Thanks!
I own several issues from back in the day... I could've sworn they were sold in stores, at least during the latter half of its life. I'm sure many of those issues have been digitized to be read online nowadays
I knew of sega visions and I did subscribed to it, but I never got any magazines. So I got electronic gaming monthly for any info on new sega releases. I think it faded because of Nintendo's popularity. Good job covering it, Erin
Thank you so much for showing us more magazines Erin! 😃
Early 90s kids are scratching our heads because our parents threw out those registration cards Christmas night/before hooking up the system for our birthdays!
I had a couple of issues from 1994. It was the first and only real time I heard of the Sega Pico.
I was just searching about that magazine yesterday and just see this notification... wow... such a coincidence. Btw, I loved Sega as a kid, grew up with Sonic and Shinobi was my thing. Never had that magazine but had some other good ones
I was barely aware of sega at the time ;). My mom always got Nintendo power. That was cool Erin!
I managed to get one or two issues of Sega Visions when I was a kid; I lost them ages ago and I'm not entirely sure why I stopped getting them.
2:36 Boo! My inner Sega Genesis kid disapproves 😡 (Joking) Honestly each of my friends were mainly SNES kids back in the day. My older brother was the main gamer of the family & a pure Sega fanboy from the Genesis onward which by extension made me one as well. Oddly enough I don't remember him getting any of these Sega magazines & he was obsessed with everything Sega. He even got the ill advised Sega 32x add on.
I still remember that one cover of EGM Magazine with the X-Wing on the cover. May the force be with you 🎮👍🔫
Thank you for the interesting story and fun video.
Still remember getting the magazine in the mail. The price was right for a poor kid!
Maybe the price and scanbar were meant to make people feel like they were getting a deal.
I loved gamepro magazine, I still watch the show gamepro tv every Saturday which some episodes are on RUclips.
My opinion of Sega Visions was while it was good, I think it lacked the budget power of Nintendo Power or Gamepro, partially due to the fact that it was free. So while Sega decided to make it for free, I suspect that the publishing costs got too high for Sega to send it to everyone so they didn't put as much money into the brand or make as many issues.
Yooooo - i found some Sega club memoribilia recently when cleaning up some old boxes at my families house! you'd love it - great ep.
That’s awesome! And thank you
I used to get this magazine! It's what prompted me to get a Game Gear.
Nintendo Power is officially back in podcast form
I’m like to give a shout out to Erin for being so awesome 🤗
I too grew up on Nintendo and Sega in the 90s
Holy crap I forgot this ever existed lol good stuff 👍🏼
I did have sega visions for a while, and it was the reason I found out that Sonic 2 was coming.
I'm 42, so this was right in my wheelhouse as a kid. I had several issues and I don't believe I subscribed, so either they were sold somewhere in stores, or my mom picked them up from garage sales.
I don't remember if I saw it in stores or not but it must have been if it had a bar code. I do remember having a few issues but no idea where I got them.
Love that she is using streets of rage music in the background
Was Nintendo Power sold in stores? I never saw it on any magazine rack in the Denver metro area. Sega Visions was trash. It felt the the magazine called Video Games & Computer Entertainment, but even more watered down. That's because the publishers were big in the pre-crash era writing fluff pieces for games back then. It just didn't translate into the new era of gaming. The Sega Challenge newsletter was better. At least I got my After Burner poster and Power Strike from that.
I didn't read Nintendo Power until the N64 era but yeah it was sold at like every newsstand by that point.
It absolutely was! At least, it was when I was in elementary school (late 2000s). I vividly recall NP calling out how the cover for subscribers was different from the newsstand cover.
I was reading it during the N64 era, but yeah it was sold in stores up until the last issues! I’d see it at Borders. And yeah, the Sega challenge DID look pretty sweet. That’s cool you got some sick posters 😎
Yes it was sold in stores-maybe not at the very beginning but certainly by the first year. I bought most of my issues in the store until I subscribed around vol. 85
Yeah, NP was sold in stores. I used to take home an issue each month, from the Babbage's store that I worked at.
Sega had a Magazine?? 🤯
I had no idea that this magazine existed. This was a cool video. Always fun to learn something new
This was a freebie if you filled out and sent in the product registration card with your Sega console. I did for my Genesis and Sega CD so I got two copies lol
I have no idea where they came from, but I remember having 2 issues of Visions... or rather 2 copies of the same issue; I remember Sonic being on the cover, and I think it was a promo for Sonic 3. I don't remember a thing about it, though; I had Nintendo Power, GamePro, and for a time, Game Players.
Side note: What is that song that comes in at about 2:55? The one after the Streets of Rage tune.
Saturn Bomberman :)
@@ErinPlays That would be why I can't place it; I haven't found much of interest for the Saturn, so I never really dove into the library. Thanks; I'll have to check that soundtrack out!
I still today have most of my old Nintendo power magazines
Alright, it needs to be said. "Genesis does what Nintendont"... that just always seemed like a joke to me lol. I was an SNES kid too and experienced great games like Yoshi's Island, Super Mario Kart, the Megaman X series, Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy 2 and 3, and the list goes on. At the time, I was like how do people even try to imply Genesis can ever match up to SNES when you compare the games lmao 😂😂😂😂😂
lol, the marketing was too aggressive for little-me!
I’ve literally got closets full of these magazines.
I remember these magazines Nintendo power Sega Visions it’s nostalgia at it finest these were essentially advertising but were really enjoyable to read since they had articles about the games and upcoming releases 🤓☕️☕️
I had every issue back in the day. I threw them all out when I moved away from home, lol...
I used to receive those magazine via mail when I was younger, god why did I get rid of them!!!!!!!!
I got rid of a lot of my Nintendo Powers, so I understand :(
@@ErinPlays OMG that stinks!!
We have the gaming historian for this kinda stuff
Sega Visions ended its run after 25 issues with its September 1995 issue being the last published.
I kinda remembered sega visions.
i used to get these in the mail. good times.
Now you're playing with power,
Erin power.
Very unique gaming magazine video Erin Plays my friend.😘
I've never heard about this one before and I watch a decent amount of old retro game stuff, cool
Keep it up, Erin! Also, Sega Visions was good :P Love your chan.
Love the streets of rage 2 music🎶. I basically went with gamepro to get my Sega fix. So I never got the Sega vision magazine. Great video Erin
Thanks!
Such a great video 👍🏿🙏🏿