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I like EGM but I really enjoyed the original Official Playstation Magazine. I also liked, I think it was called PSM..Playstation Monthly. It was really independent and off the wall humor.

I do remember the Old OPM and PSM. Both of those were really good. However, I think I only had one issue of PSM... and it was the swimsuit one for Soul Calibur II...but I did really did have great articles in it. Honestly, I swear I did read it! lol

You mean you looked at the pretty pictures

I loved going to the grocery store and picking up EGM every month and looking at a bunch of games I wanted to play, but weren't in my future, simply because I so loved the personality of the mag's writing style. 

I will most remember the mags that came out during the Gamecube era. I loved when Shoe was Editor, had a lot of gaming tastes in common with Milky, and it was funny how they'd rag on Shane Bettenhausen for being a Sony fanboy. I really liked how reviews of the same game would contain joking references to each other, like you were reading an actual conversation, but with more with than can often be mustered in a live-on-tape setting like multiple reviewers have online now. I also really liked Seanbaby and some of the cartoons in the back I can't remember the names of. I really liked some of the sarcastic responses to reader mail, though I felt once Milky was Editor, some got a bit too mean-spirited. 

I just wish that terrible Wolverine cover wasn't the last one I got in the mail, aside from the Call of Juarez cover when they decided to reboot. Is there a way to order that SFIV cover online, the one after the awful Wolvie one? I always wished their prime era could have ended there instead, and if I get a copy, I can pretend it did.

Milky definately was harsh at times but I really did like him. Milky was part of the reason why I loved GMR mag so much. It was like a grown up verison of EGM squared that was super artsy.

Wish I could have read GMR, but never heard of it before. Which is probably related to its short run ...

EGM, tbh I only have 2 issues, one on Soul Calibur 2, I think they had 3 versions, representing each version of the game. I had the Spawn one since I could never find the one with Link in it. Still a great magazine, I can see the legacy behind it. I also have another issue, I think it came out early 2010 or so and was about Super Street Fighter 4.

My favorite magazine will always be Nintendo Power, that magazine was an important part of my childhood and my life. So I shed a tear the day it finally died, I even sent a thank you letter in email form, don't know if they ever read it though. I have alot of NP Mags, mostly 2010 ones, I had a few older ones but they got lost in 2010, the yeqar we moved to a new house. I'm sure they are in a box somewhere.

I'm sure the read the letter, NP was special to a lot of people. I doubt that everything about it was shut off instantly. I remeber hearing about a succesor magazine, Nintendo Force, announced almost a year ago. I wonder what happened to it. I hope its OK.

I remember starting a subscription a month before they closed down. If I see any old EGMs at a flea market or thift shop, I'm buying them. 

I used to get The Official Xbox Magazine, Nintendo Power, and The Official Playstation Magazine. I loved it when both OXM and OPM had demo discs. I kept a lot of them and did an epically long blog series about them on 1UP a few years ago.

Yeah I still have many of my Old OPM and OXM demo disks too. My favorite demo disk came from a special OXM mag that was first demoing Xbox Arcade. It came with a bunch a demos but also the full verison of Ms. Pac-Man. It was nice!

I have that one. I was so excited by XBLA when it first started.

My favorite video game magazine was Nintendo Power.  Sure it was company propoganda a lot of the time, especially in the early days.  But the magazine had a lot of 'firsts' for video game magazines.

Other ones I liked were EGM, Next Generation, and Diehard GameFan.

Oh boy, I do remeber the bad days of NP when they were just another marking wing of Nintendo. Its a shame when they finally shaped up and became really ligitmate with its writing, it was right at the end of their tenure.

I agree that the new EGM doesn't have that spark. I'm going to let my subscription lapse, which is a little sad. I don't have a ton of nostalgia for the really old days since I normally only read it standing in stores or at friends' houses. I started subscribing in the early 2000s and really enjoyed that era. Oh well, I have no lack of things to read...

Most of my copies that I had of EGM were also given to me from friends. Some of them might have been a few years old to but were really great reads.

I only have one issue of EGM (I think its from December 0f 2006), but I always liked to see it, even if I didn't understand english at that time. I still have it.

My favorite videogame magazine is not from the US, but from Mexico and was called Club Nintendo, and from the name you knew what it was about. Loved it. Haven't read recent issues though.

I've heard of Club Nintendo before when I was looking at a Nintendo Wiki. Its really interesting to see how Nintendo translated their brand in other countries. I remeber reading a bit about the German Club Nintendo magazine and how it had Mario comics. One that stood out in my mind was one about Mario taking on the cast of Street Fighter 2... and hitting on Chun-Li. I'm not making that up. I can't for the love me find it again though.

The only magazine I'm interested in right now is Retro Gamer. I keep hearing good things about it.

I haven't heard that mag before myself. Do you know what's it about?

Here's their web site retrogamer.net.