Electronic Gaming Monthly #36 - July 1992 | Live with MLiG at RetroWorld Expo 2019
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Episode 62 - I was honored to be invited to RetroWorld Expo 2019 last month in Hartford, CT. Coury from My Life in Gaming was there as well, and as we're good friends we thought it would be cool to do a panel together. Coury came up with the idea of us doing a live version of my "Let's Read" series, so here we go!
We knew that we wanted to pick an issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, as it's the most popular multi-platform magazine from the 90's. We went through our respective collections together and came up with this issue. 1992 was really a special time in video gaming, and this issue covers some of the heavy-hitters from that time, including Street Fighter II, Contra III: The Alien Wars, Axelay, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time on the Super Nintendo, as well as Street Fighter II' - Champion Edition in the arcades and the upcoming launch of the Sega CD add-on for the Genesis.
Show Notes:
- The camera stand that I normally use to record the magazine read-throughs is far too bulky and heavy to drag across the country, so I fabricated a new collapsible one out of PVC pipe. This way I could pack it in my luggage. It turned out really nicely though, so I may start using it here at home as well.
- The audio in this video was recorded straight from the mixing board of the exhibit hall's PA system. I tried my best to clean it up and get it sounding decent, but I am not at all used to using a handheld mic, so there are some bad plosives as well as times when I wasn't talking directly into the capsule.
- The "face cam" is just my GoPro. GoPro cameras are cool and everything, but they are really not meant for the kind of low-light shooting that I was doing here. That being said, it is a "set it and forget it" Show Time Rotisserie Grill kind of camera. I didn't want to be setting up a DSLR and having it decide to shut off halfway through the presentation.
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Great "Let's Read" as always. I enjoyed Coury's input as well as the additional conversation over the various features. Glad you were able to change up the format a bit and still make it work. 👍
Love that Chris throws in gameplay footage and the camera cuts were on point. Chris’ quality commitment is top shelf.👌👾
Man, I miss these days so much. I’m 40 now with all these responsibilities financial and otherwise, worries, concerns, resentment, regret.....but back then in July 1992, I was just a 12 year old boy without a care in the world and just wanted to have fun and was so happy. GamePro and EGM were like my monthly bibles back then and when this edition of EGM came out I was fully immersed in the video game world. I had my Super NES for only about 6 months at that time which my mom had bought me for Xmas 1991 and I absolutely loved it. Part of me really wishes I could go back to those times 😕
You and me both.
This is cool. I actually still have most of my EGM's from the 90s.
nice wish I did
My brother threw all mine out when I moved out. That little puke
Same here, I think as early as ‘94 or ‘95 for me
I do wish videogame magazines like this were still around. It’s so much fun to thumb through the pages, read the articles and see all the print ads. Definitely a time capsule of its era that has now sadly passed.
LoL coury mentioned egm’s photo tent thingy was nicknamed the “Cone of Silence”; this is a reference to the tv show “Get Smart”. Maxwell Smart and his boss(the chief) would use the cone of silence to communicate secret messages to each other but the joke is they could barely hear each other
😂😂😂
These Let's Reads are probably my most anticipated videos to show up on my subs. Keep em coming!
I really like these magazine reads and recently bought Gamepro December 94 with Donkey Kong on the cover because of these videos. Because the internet didn’t really exist back then these Magazines are a cool time capsule of gaming in the era.Hearing both of you go through the mag was really cool.
This is really fun to listen to.. thanks for posting.😁
I absolutely adore this series of videos. Can't help but love whenever you post one of these readthroughs. Love your work!
Chris was hilarious in a very dry humour way here.
Great stuff.
Holy crap, I remember this one! I was at the supermarket with my mom, begging her to buy this for me. Finally she relented and I had it in my hands. Then my sister started messing with me, making faces or something. So I flicked her ear. She started bawling and mom put my magazine back. Now I can see what I missed thanks to my dumb little sister! (Just kidding I love her. These days anyway.)
hahaha, siblings are at that age are always the biggest punishers.
Lets read is great, but dont forget how great looking at the pictures is!
Love this series, cool to see it live.
Wow, what a flood of memories. Gaming magazines were the best in those days. You guys have an excellent dynamic together!! Hope to see you guys do another Let's Read sometime soon. Cheers boys.
I've always been a Street Fighter 2 guy, too! My favorite of all-time is SF2 Turbo on the SNES with the speed set on 10 stars. I would only play like that and have had a hard time playing other SF games since because everything else seems so slow.
Man do I miss reading gaming magazines. Sega Vision, Nintendo Power and Gamepro from the early 90s were my go to
I love retro gaming magazines. My dad has a few and i looked through them about six months ago and enjoyed every moment. Some day ill buy a few for my own collection.
The 92 dream team was total OP. It was never really the same afterwards.
Very relaxing and interesting as usual. I used to get EGM here in the UK (EGM2 also) from a newsagent/video game shop called Cannings. The import scene in the UK was good back then and this was were I got my super famicom copy of turtles 4 from. Both Japanese and US games for both Super Nintendo and mega drive were sold and available to rent from this shop. The place still exists but now is just a newsagent.
Olympic Gold the UK/EU mega drive version was sponsored by Coca Cola and featured the cant beat the feeling jingle. The version I have even has a book with it all about the Olympics and coke. Strike Gunner is repetitive but I do love the music. Street fighter 2 was a pack in title in the UK for the Super Nintendo and I was lucky enough to get one as a kid.
This was a very luxurious Let’s read, great back and forth!
I don't know if you know this but you called Actraiser Axelay on your SNES launch episode...
I love these lets reads. You are great at these
Thank you so much for doing this. You have a core group of people like me that appreciate it.
finally! was waiting on this one! Great job Chris! 👍
been curious how to pronounce your last name since you mentioned in your flashbacks that you had this teacher that couldn't pronounce your last name. learned something new! woot!
I just bought a stack of Nintendo Power and EGM from the early 90s. I'm going to get the rest tomorrow.
Nice. I bought a few recently too but they sure are expensive.
@@estebancruz6194 .50 at half price books, my friend.
I can't get enough of these videos. Keep em coming!
👍
Die Hard was a video game store in the San Fernando Valley area of LA County, CA. I think the city was either Encino or Tarzana. I went there once. Kind of a small store. They're long gone though
I had Low expectations but you made it work....Perfectly. I used to own that Magazine. Only thing i disliked was that you guys had to rush in the end. Great video.
We weren’t happy about it either, but someone else was scheduled in there after us. If we ever get the change to do this again, we definitely need to block out more time. Glad you liked it!
Great collaboration!
That guy at the end 🙃, Coury said Heart of Darkness.
On the last page, the high scores, my name used to be in there with Space Harrier 3D, I won to Dan Lee :D My name appears in a lot of EGM editions
Great stuff like always, thanks! Maybe some PC game magazines from middle or late 90 in future? :)
Really weird that this appeared on my feed! I was actually reorganizing some things in my room including my EGM mags... I'm surprised most of them are in decent condition after all these years!!
The interwebs single-handedly killed the gaming mag industry.
I was subscribed to a few.
I'm glad I kept all of my gaming mags from back in the day.
I got the CD add-on for the TG16 when it released. It only came with the RAM card and it was version 1 if I remember right. I have no idea how the hell we could afford it + a couple CD games for it because we were broke as a joke! I guess my dad just really loved video games. 🤷
At some point my dad mailed the whole system to my cousin in Texas and I'm pretty sure he would never give it back now 😟. I had so many games too...
Awesome stuff as always. Whenever in see these it makes me want to go through and read some of my old mags.
NCAA Basketball was really underrated. Once you get the hang of how it controls the game becomes a lot of fun to play. It's an excellent use of Mode 7 too. I believe you were right Chris. It's developer was Sculptured Software, and it was published by Nintendo.
So awesome hearing there stories behind these issues.
With that said, Die Hard GameFan was often full of crap! They said they played as Tenegashima in Soul Blade for PS1. I spent MONTHS trying to unlock that character!!
I still have a lot of issues of Game Fan boxed up somewhere. GameFan was essentially just a way to advertise Dave Halverson's Die Hard Gamers Club store front. The store specialized in Japanese imports, anime, and other things, so Die Hard Game fan magazine would cover this stuff heavily, while still covering the US/NA market as well. They had a rivalry with EGM. They would mock f Sushi-X and such. But I like both EGM and GameFan for different reasons.
SFII was $80 for the SNES. Everybody wanted it.
I probably would've bought a Super Nintendo just for Street Fighter 2 but thanks to EGM I got the inside scoop that Champion Edition was on its way to my Genesis. Admittedly, the SNES versions look and sound better, but fortunately they all play great.
Good point I asked my brother in law living in Wisconsin if he ever played the turbo grafx 16 he never heard of it in the late 80's till 2009 I lived in Delaware and could go to the local mall or toy's R us and buy one
I love Dino City, my brother and I still play it to this day. For some reason always felt it is very underrated despite the difficulty Chris alluded to.
Yeah it definitely seemed like a cool game. I just thought it was odd that they were trying to sell it as "fun for the whole family" when it seemed pretty challenging.
Insightful as always, Chris
Great job. Love this Chris
I loved Faceball 2000 for the SNES. It might've been the first FPS I ever played - it was either that or Wolfenstein
Too bad they rushed you guys. This was just as comfy live.
Im so disappointed I got rid of all my nintendo power magazines. I started getting them in 1993 and got every issue for 5 years and threw them all away
I was hoping you'd use my scan of On the Ball (SNES). I bought it late last year and spent way more time than I should have while cleaning it up. Haha
The sequel was Heart of the Alien. Heart of Darkness was a novella by Joseph Conrad which the film Apocalypse Now is based on.
Heart of the Alien is a Sega CD title, and the direct sequel to Another World. Heart of Darkness is a PlayStation game that was also produced by Eric Chahi. And you are of course correct that it is also the title of the excellent Joseph Conrad book.
another great upload ty
45:49 I had track and field for the gameboy and I LOVED IT! I would cheat though... I would use a battery and get super fast times by sliding the battery back and forth.
18:28 - That is Penelope Ann Miller, and I doubt she gave the game makers permission to use her likeness.
You guys missed out on Faceball 2000. That game is actually fun.
Another CGQ! Sweet!
Liked the two person read through. Only thing I could have done without were all the pointless zoomed out camera shots of you guys. Would rather look at the magazine.
IIRC the first game they gave a 10 to was Ys I&II on the turbo
have frist nintendo and Ps1 game magazines with vhs and a lot of old pc gaminh magazines but ı cut so many thing from them over time lol. some Pages like war zones.
@11:00 wrong super Monaco GP got 9 10 9 10 before sf2
It was first snes 9 10 9 10 rating though...like a year before GP got it for Genesis 💡
Hey, what type of equipment do you use for the top down view for these magazine reads? I really enjoy them!
For this episode I built an overhead camera rig out of PVC pipe.
@@CGQuarterly Thanks!
I love how Chris gives Coury a few small shots over the video. Great banter.
Oh you're probably great friends with Ed and Jordan and have their number next to all those sealed games 👌
Ed Semrad always was a generous reviewer
Idk how he got that wrong the first 9 10 9 10 egm review was super Monaco GP for Genesis in issue 16 exactly 1 year before this sf2 review
*HJÖNK HJÖNK I'M GOOSE!* 🕊️
Race Drivin the worse game I ever played on the Snes. Went back to the store the next day & exchanged it for a walkman that was probably half the price of the game. Great read through, saw the video going through my own copy of EGM.
I bought the SNES for the rpgs and Mario games
Magic Johnson ad at 3:00 bc I’m hyped for the NBA season, Lakers all day.
Adam Ramirez looking strong in pre season this year! Unlike the Bulls.. smh
can we get game room tour video ?
Oh, so your name has a "lime" in it. That makes it easy to explain.
29:13 one was jimi Hendrix
Well how big was that salmon that was just caught?
First pix of Sonic 2?
damn -- montgomery ward
Too many pages for one hour 😉 I remember playing The Terminator back in the day, but can’t recall if I actually liked it or just played it because it was The Terminator. It was probably ok, but must not have left a lasting impression.
So cool you uploaded it. Please upload your own panel, too. No matter what you're thinking of it - *we* want to see it. =P
cheers from a German fan.
I think this is the first time you've spoken your last name in a video. I was never sure but in my head I ignored the "i" and assumed it was said just like Alamo.
Not a lot of actual reading for a "let's read". I was hoping this would be more of a bedtime stories sort of scenario.
55:02 ???
With all due respect, David Robinson and The Spurs were a big deal for pretty much the entirety of the 90s. He dragged The Spurs to the playoffs every year and finally won the big one when he got some help (Tim Duncan)...
I love you guys but Super Monaco GP for the genesis was the first game to ever get a 10. just saying.
Last good street fighter was alpha series. And mk i never got into.
Who is the rando guy chipping in off camera sporadically?
I'm new here. You are american. Why do you have a finnish "No Loitering" sign on your wall?
To keep Finns from loitering on the set!
Sounds like you sped it up a little :(
havent watched this channel in a while, WOAH what happened? did you stop dyeing your beard?
Never dyed my beard. Just getting old.
@@CGQuarterly sorry man, i see now that the video i was thinking of, with the black beard, is actually 4 years old! it felt like it was only a few months lol
Hey I don't think we got to see those sweet first pix of Sonic 2 ☹️. UNSUBBED!!! Lol
fmv games were never cool imo even back at the time they were boring and couldnt compete in the gameplay department with proper 2D games. Tech firms and publishers overhyped the genre thinking it would be the next wave of products to get money out of our pockets but the majority of us saw through it :)
pictures of women are not "cringy" i guess you only like men
Everything with Cory sucks
For the love of God, put some life in to it please. This put me to sleep after 3 min. I'm 39 years old. I was there. It was moor fun than you guys make this sound
Sounds like my show is just not for you, which is OK.
Chris trying way too hard to be funny
That beard makes you look old
That may be true, but shaving it off for that reason would make me an old man who was also insecure.