And the gameshow features with mouth watering images of soon to be released arcade games... That was the best but oh so small part.mirkvid wrote:i love old school game mags. the writers seemed so enthusiastic. now days all we get is smart ass comments. and thats a pretty "super scene" in that first scan!
Yeah, Curse is awesome!Of course only one actually lived upto the hype. We all know which one Cool
nostalgia rush. Funny how even if you play these games consistently now, seeing old magazine coverage of them takes you back.
The Coop wrote:It took me thirteen years to finally get to own and play Curse. I remember the EB close to where we lived at the time was supposed to receive the game, but it kept getting pushed further and further back. We eventually moved to a town where there was no EB, and I slowly forgot about the game. About a decade later, I discovered eBay. One day while I was looking for something else, Curse popped back into my head, and I did a search. A couple months, and two failed attempts later, I finally won a copy on the third try.
When that game arrived, and I held it in my hands after all that waiting, I have to say... I was smiling like a little kid.
Oh, and a couple scans...
http://www.geocities.com/arforfaborb/TF3Review.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/arforfaborb/CurseReview.jpg
I've got the Mega Play preview and review of TFIII myself. Edit: the preview is just one pic from the EGM preview but here's the review:The Coop wrote:I had to post them. If not for the crammed (and at times, nonsensical) reviews, then for the "Sage's Creation" goof.gigadrive32 wrote:Also, I've got those reviews in the EGM's next to me but didn't bother posting them.
I have the MegaPlay and GamePro reviews for TF3 as well... somewhere.
Of course it's mediocre writing, that's part of why it's nostalgic. I'm sure you don't need quite this low (if harmless) standard of writing for a confidence boost. ^_~JoshF wrote:The only thing it gives me is more confidence in my writing ability. Seriously, all these old shooter reviews say is blah blah "blasting action!" Anything written by anyone on this site or forum is better (since they might notice those numbers in the corner of the screen.)
It's naive and straightforward - that's why it worked. After all, we, the readers, where just as naive and straightforward ourselves. There was a lovely kind of understanding between journalist and reader back then.Bill wrote:Of course it's mediocre writing, that's part of why it's nostalgic. I'm sure you don't need quite this low (if harmless) standard of writing for a confidence boost. ^_~
Things were simpler back then, certainly. Also less demanding, for shooters. There wasn't the current pressure to justify their existence, or their individuality. Were the comment "We've seen it before: fly an attack craft through alien hazards, destroying everything in sight, to reach the ultimate goal in each round" to appear in a modern magazine, I would consider it either filler or, were it an allegation of the genre lacking individuality, shallow and easily refutable. I'd also expect more specifics from a modern shooter review than "Explosive, apocalyptic, mind blowing, a fury of ultimate destruction, awesome firepower, incredible graphics & sound, massive bosses, in a word, "Magnificent!!!" And if someone were to compare the Thunder Force and Gradius series these days, I'd ask them to elaborate beyond the obvious. In their actual contexts, such writing is something I can happily indulge as the product of simpler times for this medium. Obviously much more can be said about TFIII's good and bad points, but that detail is what I expect from reviews for its modern representatives.320x240 wrote:It's naive and straightforward - that's why it worked. After all, we, the readers, where just as naive and straightforward ourselves. There was a lovely kind of understanding between journalist and reader back then.Bill wrote:Of course it's mediocre writing, that's part of why it's nostalgic. I'm sure you don't need quite this low (if harmless) standard of writing for a confidence boost. ^_~
Now there's just a bunch of nerds (i call every pretencious quasi-intellectual a nerd) now there's just a bunch of nerds trying to impress others of their kind. The twelve year olds have become sixteen.
Woah crazy graphics and sound look at those intense explosions woah look at thoes fluid weapons HUGE bosses & animation this is pure action. You're gonna have a BLAST, and I mean that...in every sense of the word.
