Retrogaming in Germany

[MintyTheCat]

Hello all,

I wonder if any of you fine members could help me out with some information?

Are there any Retrogaming magasines released in Germany or written in German?
Also, are there any recommended retro-gaming stops in Germany worth visiting?
Are there any of you who'd fancy meeting up in Berlin for some retro-gaming?

Many thanks.

[Jockel]

We have a Videogame Museum in Berlin that apparently isn't all that special, and if you want to meet up with people i recommend using the Shmupmeets subforum.

[lewisit]

Are there any Retrogaming magasines released in Germany or written in German?

there is at least one I know of (and it's even called "Retro"):

Retro magazine

[Teufel_in_Blau]

I'm sure you will find many answers to your questions also here:

http://www.triggerzone.de/

It's a German Shmups site with a forum etc.

/e

Wait, I just realized that you are from the UK and maybe you can't speak German, if that's the case forget my link.

[MintyTheCat]

Danke für alles,

Gestern ich hatte Retro Zeitschrift gekauft. Es ist interessant

Wie heißt das Museum in Berlin bitte?

Ich werde sub-forum und der deutschs site benutzen.

Vielen dank

[Jockel]

http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/
I'll be there on Sunday, 3 PM.

[MintyTheCat]

Sorry for replying late to this.

I shall bring a friend down to the Museum. I've also told a few other friends who seem interested too - thanks for letting me know.

[Jockel]

Have fun playing the painstation! I got a second degree burn on my hand from that thing, but boy was it fun.

[drei :3]

If late 80s and early 90s are retro enough, you can take a look at scans from German magazines from that era, like Power Play and Video Games: Kultpower (requires Javascript).

Anyone remember that mag, Video Games? They had this anal-retentive scoring system with fun as a percentage — and that was the German standard in the 90s — and they also rated graphics like that, and from the mag's beginning in the early 90s to its end in the early aughts, game audio received separate percentage ratings for music and sound effects.

One of their testers was Julian Eggebrecht, also a member of Factor 5, the company that made Turrican. Another tester, especially for Japanese imports, was a Japanese import himself: Tetsuhiko Hara. Tet got hired by the Final Fantasy guys after he bashed the German translation of one of their titles. There was also a mystery involving his "Brazilian" sister, with nobody believing him he had one, until one day he provided some photos of her — which were promptly published in the editorial.

I wonder if she ever got wind of being "famous" in Germany (for a time Video Games was the biggest gaming mag in Germany, not sure if they still had more than MAN!AC at that point though, the latter magazine survived and is today named M! Games).

[MintyTheCat]

Danke für das Info.

I habe nur Retro Zeitschrift und ein Interview bei Turrican 3 in deutsch gelesen.

Wir mögen Factor 5

Können Sie erinnern, was ist das bestes Zeitschriften bei Amiga und C64?

Auch, haben wir irgendwelche Arkaden/Speilothek und Retrovideospielladen in Berlin?

Auch ich habe das Samantha Fox ist sehr bekannt in deutschalnd gehort. Es ist richtig?

Danke schön

[Pocket_Man]

Amiga Joker was the mag i used to buy http://amr.abime.net/issues_32
visit kultboy and take a look http://www.kultboy.com/index.php?site=kult/kultmags

btw i tried the painstation in cologne, got a decent burn on my hand too.

[drei :3]

The MAN!AC guys put their debut edition online: MAN!AC 11/93 PDF. Their early representation blew me away, with their in-house artist drawing a blend of animé and graffiti, the reviews with their tiny text above the title listing names of some involved in its development, the reviewer's opinion accompanied by their morphed mug (some of the reviewers were defectors from Video Games, I wonder what it was like for their former colleagues to open the competing magazine and seeing these), and the whole hyperlink-style layout. Too bad they used heavy compression for the game screenshots in the PDF, they also removed ads and the test of a censored game (hey, it's still in the table of contents).

Last thing I remember about Samantha Fox is getting groped by TV host Harald Schmidt (David Letterman's evil twin) about a decade ago. I don't think many teenagers today know her, with people in their 30s and above it's probably different.

[Sumez]

Are there any retro game magazines -anywhere-?
And what would they write about anyway? Not much news in retro.

I recommend reading articles on sites like Hardcoregaming101 and such instead.

[MintyTheCat]

Are there any retro game magazines -anywhere-?
And what would they write about anyway? Not much news in retro.

I recommend reading articles on sites like Hardcoregaming101 and such instead.

There most certainly are magasines out there, try:

Retrogamer in the UK:

http://www.retrogamer.net/back_issues.php

Retro in Germany:

http://www.abo-direkt.de/r2/shop_ad/ind ... nr=2076736

There is in fact a great deal of news in Retro gaming I find.
Retro gaming magasines also take a different approach to their writing in that they are often looking back and analysing games and genres and style in a given context.

I enjoy reading the older magasines myself as they often give you a history lesson and a good background on your favourite platforms.

I very much doubt that the current generation magasines will endeavour to cover Shmups as they are in fact classed as a "retro genre".

[ckong]

http://www.return-magazin.de/

[missjumjum]

http://www.return-magazin.de/

Great stuff.