Without finishing the video: Paul Kidby, the current artist of the Discworld series, painted a Phantasy Star 3 cover for a gaming magazine back in the day. I need to find the name of it. Hold this space for me.
So the XG in "Get Ready for XG" stands for eXpert Gamer, the successor to EGM2. Focusing on strategy guides and codes, Expert Gamer would last three years and 39 issues before ceasing publication in October 2001. I had actually forgotten that Expert Gamer magazine was a thing until I saw the "Get Ready for XG" inscription in this video!
Gamefan and PSM were my absolute favorites. That art you featured with Cammy and Deejay is unmistakably Terry Wolfinger's work. He's very prolific now and worked with the mag up until Patrick Spaziante took over in the late 90's ('98, I would guess). I'd buy posters of some of the PSM covers if I could. Adam Warren's Wipeout 3's cover is a favorite, for example. Edit: that SFA3 Gamefan issue is one of the rarest issues of the entire mags' run. It's a true collector's item.
I was a huge Gamefan mark as a teenager, but I’m still kind of salty about them never giving me my free subscription for winning one of their tips and tricks contests, haha.
I remember some of the early Ninja Turtle stuff having Mikey with red and Raph with maroon. I know I had a comic that was an adaptation of the first episode of the 1987 cartoon and it had those colors. That cover looked like it was using that version. SWAT was their secondary magazine. No reviews or news, just strategy guides and code. I only had one issue of it, from the early N64 ear. I had a ton of Gamepros. Dr Zombie was one of the editors for Gamepro and he did a lot of their artwork. The Motaro vs Nightwolf was his.
So the magazine "Video Games", originally was "Video Games and Computer Entertainment". They shortened it at some point. I don't know why but it was extremely available in the DC area when I was growing up, so I read almost every issue.
S.W.A.T. PRO!!!! My folks, (and I can't thank them enough for doing this, or any gaming stuff we requested) Got us a magazine subscription for a X-mas gift one year. I still don't know how or who told them about this spinoff magazine, but this is the one they got for my brother and I. There were no preview or cover issues, just guides and codes. So while it was a bummer because there weren't any hot news or gossip. We did learn a lot stuff about games, so whenever we went to friends' houses, we had a good idea of what to do whenever we played a new game. Also we knew all MK2 fatalities.
Also at 22:40 - Kronos was a spinoff company from Deep Silver, the studio that made Eternal Champions. That's why the CG style for the characters from Criticom look so similar.
I think I started collecting these magazines around 90 to 92'. I remember cool version of street fighter and mortal kombat on the covers for years. My mom worked in an office and had a copy machine so I photocopied like a 100 black and white EGM covers for ya know....early 90s reasons. Who knows.
I remembered for the FF10 cover, I found the magazine right outside my local CVS back in 01 and snagged it and would read it nearly everyday while taking the yellow bus to school.
Game Players 95 - There was a Seaquest DSV game? Nintendo Magazine System - I think they saw Thunder's fingerless gloves and assumed his redish skin tone was part of some kind of claw glove.
@@Peannlui i have no education or writing experience- but have seriously considered just uploading something. maybe i'll just have it in the background of my next music vid (at least i put effort into SOMEthing!)
Video Games magazine had previously been Video Games and Computer Entertainment. Despite the clunky title, VG&CE was a fantastic magazine. Video Games, not so much.
Game Players was my jam as a kid. I remember feeling the covers lost some oomph when they changed to Ultra Game Players, but they had some cool ones. The Super Metroid cover with the purple-haired Samus always sticks out in my memory.
I had subscriptions to GamePro and EGM magazines for for years, and I would pick up Tips & Trick magazine from the store every month. By the end of the year I’d have like a 3 foot tall stack of gaming magazines. The good old days
Just wanna shout out the music picks for this episode and being almost song for song MY specific nostalgia really added to the overall Radical-ness of this ep!
I should look into my old EGM issues I have stored away. Might have some golden covers in there. I remember an issue that was focused on "sexy" games... What a time.
26:10 Now THAT unlocked a Core Memory for me; I had completely forgotten I was subbed to Game Players back in the day and this image just jolted me back =D
I had every issue of GamePro from I think May 1993 until around May 2006. Sadly I had to move around a decade ago and wasn't able to bring them along. There were tons of EGMs, Game Informer, Nintendo Power etc. as well, but GamePro was my favorite, I just felt like it had more reviewers whose opinion I could trust and who had similar taste as me growing up.
I wish I had a PSX or PS2 so I could have subscribed to PAM, they had a lot of great original art from some of my favorite guys in comics including Art Adams, Adam Hughes, J. Scott Campbell and Joe Madureira as discussed, and my man Mike Wieringo (RIP Ringo, he was #1)
I had that RE cover gamepro. Still thought it was cool AF 😂. Official Playstation Magazine had top notch covers. And they had demo discs in every issue !
Video Games Oct'93 - That white background looks suspicious, look at Kano's hair, like it was a hastily made change to cover up something in the background. Mysteries lost to time I guess.
I always enjoy looking back at old mags, what a great piece of time capsule! (especially the articles, those that don't age well in particular! XD). Maybe you can take a look at the Japanese mags? Famitsu covers are nice, though it might lack in "variety" (as well as comical value from bad art...) as it's all done by the same artist, Susumu Matsushita (who also did the art for Maximo games).
I remember Psm mag if sf3 alpha with chung blanka and ryu cool cover but the he best part it came with stickers of all the characters that fit over your memory cards
@@junibug6790 Nah it's only because they stopped making these covers, so people were like "that artwork is not horrible, I'm not buying it" there's no other reason at all.
Growing up in this era I can truly say there were some unhinged covers.
Which was the style at the time
In the 90s we hadn’t yet invented anatomy
16:01 how many of those "NEW FIGHTING GAMES" have gone on to be featured on The Worst Fighting Game?!?!?!
answer: yes
Without finishing the video: Paul Kidby, the current artist of the Discworld series, painted a Phantasy Star 3 cover for a gaming magazine back in the day. I need to find the name of it. Hold this space for me.
Kidby started out as the cover artist for Games Master magazine in the '90s.
So the XG in "Get Ready for XG" stands for eXpert Gamer, the successor to EGM2. Focusing on strategy guides and codes, Expert Gamer would last three years and 39 issues before ceasing publication in October 2001.
I had actually forgotten that Expert Gamer magazine was a thing until I saw the "Get Ready for XG" inscription in this video!
I didn't know they were an evolution of EGM2. That's neat trivia.
I still own all the 90s gaming mags I ever bought. Oldest one is a 1993 issue of GamePro featuring SF2 Turbo on the cover.
Gamefan and PSM were my absolute favorites.
That art you featured with Cammy and Deejay is unmistakably Terry Wolfinger's work. He's very prolific now and worked with the mag up until Patrick Spaziante took over in the late 90's ('98, I would guess).
I'd buy posters of some of the PSM covers if I could. Adam Warren's Wipeout 3's cover is a favorite, for example.
Edit: that SFA3 Gamefan issue is one of the rarest issues of the entire mags' run. It's a true collector's item.
0:49, IS THAT THE JONKLER
Why is Jonkler standing in the explosion.
Is he Stupid?
I remember these covers. Always giving me nostalgia, Mr. Muscle Skeleton Warrior.
I was a huge Gamefan mark as a teenager, but I’m still kind of salty about them never giving me my free subscription for winning one of their tips and tricks contests, haha.
I am 100% certain that nobody who won any of their contests received anything.
I was a massive fan too, but theirs was a very troubled publication.
I remember some of the early Ninja Turtle stuff having Mikey with red and Raph with maroon. I know I had a comic that was an adaptation of the first episode of the 1987 cartoon and it had those colors. That cover looked like it was using that version.
SWAT was their secondary magazine. No reviews or news, just strategy guides and code. I only had one issue of it, from the early N64 ear. I had a ton of Gamepros.
Dr Zombie was one of the editors for Gamepro and he did a lot of their artwork. The Motaro vs Nightwolf was his.
Billy Lee Cuts Into The Fascia of the Universe
So the magazine "Video Games", originally was "Video Games and Computer Entertainment". They shortened it at some point. I don't know why but it was extremely available in the DC area when I was growing up, so I read almost every issue.
I definitely owned quite a few of these growing up 😂 never really thought much about em at the time being weird or anything if you can believe it
I've said it before... All of us who grew up seeing Francis Mao's GamePro artwork need a support group, or something.
Kids today won't understand
Yeah, all they understand is Fortnite this and Roblox that. BAAAAH, KIDS TODAY AMIRITE?
@@cubansupremehawk Tuah this and skibbidi that WHAT IS HAPPENING
Lol, depraved adults of today like yourself won't understand, either.
I do I do! :D
That S.W.A.T cover makes Megaman look like some knockoff M.O.D.O.K.
This was a really nice throwback. Very nostalgic.
God, I remember that MK4 issue. Also included a summary of every Tekken 3 ending, it’s like a Fighting Game Theater
The background track at the start made me think I had my VITA turned on!
Oooh, Bill Donahue is in the beginning.
4:31 "they almost got it"
Narrator: they did not almost get it
12:57 Grunkle drunkle wins the splunkle hunkle
i had to comment on that timestamp too, loving that representation of our favorite grunkle
S.W.A.T. PRO!!!!
My folks, (and I can't thank them enough for doing this, or any gaming stuff we requested) Got us a magazine subscription for a X-mas gift one year. I still don't know how or who told them about this spinoff magazine, but this is the one they got for my brother and I.
There were no preview or cover issues, just guides and codes. So while it was a bummer because there weren't any hot news or gossip. We did learn a lot stuff about games, so whenever we went to friends' houses, we had a good idea of what to do whenever we played a new game. Also we knew all MK2 fatalities.
The 90s box art was cursed too.
Also at 22:40 - Kronos was a spinoff company from Deep Silver, the studio that made Eternal Champions. That's why the CG style for the characters from Criticom look so similar.
I think I started collecting these magazines around 90 to 92'. I remember cool version of street fighter and mortal kombat on the covers for years. My mom worked in an office and had a copy machine so I photocopied like a 100 black and white EGM covers for ya know....early 90s reasons. Who knows.
Splatter house made me think of that quiet riot album 😂
I remembered for the FF10 cover, I found the magazine right outside my local CVS back in 01 and snagged it and would read it nearly everyday while taking the yellow bus to school.
I had all the Psm magazines that you showed nostalgic af especially the memory card stickers and disc drive sticker covers
I still have all the PSM Swimsuit Issues. 😆
I have one of them. Wish I had more.
"Eternal Champions CD...CD...Challenge from the Dark side...huh. I just noticed this now."
53:30 superchad tidus
All the kids love seeing dynamic illustrations of Kano getting kicked in the face.
Game Players 95 - There was a Seaquest DSV game?
Nintendo Magazine System - I think they saw Thunder's fingerless gloves and assumed his redish skin tone was part of some kind of claw glove.
god i wanted to write for a mag so bad when i was in school but was too busy smoking weed and watching bad TV to put any effort into it.
There's still time, and opportunity to apply! My friend writes for online and print publications!
@@Peannlui i have no education or writing experience- but have seriously considered just uploading something. maybe i'll just have it in the background of my next music vid (at least i put effort into SOMEthing!)
@@Peannlui And makes almost no money for it!
Video Games magazine had previously been Video Games and Computer Entertainment. Despite the clunky title, VG&CE was a fantastic magazine. Video Games, not so much.
Gamepro skateboard guitar cyborg: "I asked for this!"
Matt, I forgot just how RADICAL gaming magazines were. We were royalty, not knowing how good we really had it.
Dan Ryckert cameo at the end! 😮
Game Players: The Gloves are off!
...Mario is clearly still wearing his glove. Couldn't even get that right lol
I used to have a bunch of egm, gamepro, & flux. My favorite was flux.
Game Players was my jam as a kid. I remember feeling the covers lost some oomph when they changed to Ultra Game Players, but they had some cool ones. The Super Metroid cover with the purple-haired Samus always sticks out in my memory.
Managed to save my collection of N64 magazine from being thrown out, gonna keep them as a family heirloom.
I had subscriptions to GamePro and EGM magazines for for years, and I would pick up Tips & Trick magazine from the store every month. By the end of the year I’d have like a 3 foot tall stack of gaming magazines. The good old days
9:15 The Simpson's... what? The Simpson's revenge? The Simpson's bustin out? What does the Simpson have? The Simpson's *_WHAT_*
The golden ear of gaming magazines.
20:20 that sub zero foot is giving The Maxx vibes
I'm kinda reminded of Beckett magazine with a lot of these old magazine cover art.
Billy on the VideoGames cover looking like Eric Bischoff 😆
Gamepro's Guile looks like an eyebrow less Super Saiyan 3 who cut his hair to maintain the trimmed flat top. 😂
Just wanna shout out the music picks for this episode and being almost song for song MY specific nostalgia really added to the overall Radical-ness of this ep!
Oh wow, the Diehard Gamefan magazines. Some of the stories I've heard about working there, you should do a Wha Happen about that magazine.
God that Mario on the Game Players Magazine is horrifying.
I should look into my old EGM issues I have stored away. Might have some golden covers in there. I remember an issue that was focused on "sexy" games... What a time.
26:10 Now THAT unlocked a Core Memory for me; I had completely forgotten I was subbed to Game Players back in the day and this image just jolted me back =D
I had every issue of GamePro from I think May 1993 until around May 2006. Sadly I had to move around a decade ago and wasn't able to bring them along. There were tons of EGMs, Game Informer, Nintendo Power etc. as well, but GamePro was my favorite, I just felt like it had more reviewers whose opinion I could trust and who had similar taste as me growing up.
I wish I had a PSX or PS2 so I could have subscribed to PAM, they had a lot of great original art from some of my favorite guys in comics including Art Adams, Adam Hughes, J. Scott Campbell and Joe Madureira as discussed, and my man Mike Wieringo (RIP Ringo, he was #1)
Man, I remember a bunch of these! Especially the GamePro and EGM (plus EGM2!) covers.
A lot of these 2D covers remind me of Brazilian fan-made manga. Wouldn't be surprised if they ripped some of it off to cut cost.
I had that RE cover gamepro. Still thought it was cool AF 😂. Official Playstation Magazine had top notch covers. And they had demo discs in every issue !
Video Games Oct'93 - That white background looks suspicious, look at Kano's hair, like it was a hastily made change to cover up something in the background.
Mysteries lost to time I guess.
The nostalgia of these covers, many of which I owned, cuts me like a sai
6:35 - I actually still own a dog-eared copy of this very issue of this book.
I am now immensely glad the cover fell off over 20 years ago LOL :)
9:34 I'm sorry, whomst and Jimmy Lee? This is Double Dragon III, it's Bimmy's game!
I'm a simple man. I see Balloon Animal Classic Sonic as part of this video's thumbnail, I click on it with a smile on my face as big as Sonic.
I feel bad making fun of the Sonic ice cream bars after seeing that GamePro cover.
Absolutely no notes on that Gamepro RE cover. Cant critique perfection.
Was a long time PSM subscriber. So many sick covers.
I always enjoy looking back at old mags, what a great piece of time capsule! (especially the articles, those that don't age well in particular! XD).
Maybe you can take a look at the Japanese mags? Famitsu covers are nice, though it might lack in "variety" (as well as comical value from bad art...) as it's all done by the same artist, Susumu Matsushita (who also did the art for Maximo games).
15 minutes in and can safely say I can do better art than everything shown thus far. 😊. Feeling good.
I remember that Bison and Kintaro one. I practiced that jab because i wanted to be a cool guy.
16:36 ain't that Deejay's crouching slide kick? I always wondered why he had a leg up during that.
I like Corporate Memphis Goro, because what more fitting for an evil character to be represented by corpo art?
I remember Psm mag if sf3 alpha with chung blanka and ryu cool cover but the he best part it came with stickers of all the characters that fit over your memory cards
The TMNT cover look like if they were Garbage Pail Kids spoofs
this is how we got our info on the upcoming game's. before the internet came along
55:33 - I can see that kind of terribly off-model artwork coming off of a cover from 1989, but 1999?
Sushi-X was a GamePro legend
Weird how a Joe Mad fan doesn't know J Scott Campbell, lol
*"It was the style at the time"* 😛👍
Omg this cursed TMNT cover 😂
Chris Bachalo was a X men artist.
Still a really good comics artist in general!
They stopped these hideous amateur fanart covers and suddenly everyone stops buying gaming magazines, hmm, I wonder why.
I mean, everybody stopped buying magazines because the internet existed. ;)
@@junibug6790 Nah it's only because they stopped making these covers, so people were like "that artwork is not horrible, I'm not buying it" there's no other reason at all.
i miss game mags
Gamefan and Moni-taur! 😊 He and the crew were fun!
Only know S.W.A.T. from the TV version of Gamepro from that era.
You just had to be there .😭
Darn, I was hoping for PSM April 1998 Issue 8
and they say Ai art is bad they haven't seen early 90s
Gamepro art but at lest they tryed
33:19 Katsuya Terada
52:20 Shen Mue. Two words.
Do some on Famistu
Waiting for Flophouse video to drop and he's sorry we wound up here.. 😢
Cozy video
0:49 Why is the Jonkler? Is he stupid? is there a lore reason for this?
PS vita menu music
I had a couple of these 🥲
Why the fuck does Sonic look like that, eeeeeeeeeeewwwww
Vita menu music???