Tuesday, May 19, 2009

English Beat

Why does England get all the cool video game magazines? Retro Gamer, Games TM, X360, PowerStation... sure, they have American counterparts (Game Informer, Play, GamePro, Nintendo Power, PlayStation: The Official Magazine, Tips & Tricks), but have you even looked in an issue of Retro Gamer? BAM POW SLAM fan love e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e. It harkens back to a day when homebrewers could release the next big, cool thing from a Tandy sitting in their mom's basement. There was no Madden franchise, or Tony Hawk re-hash, or Guitar Hero: Aly and AJ Edition. Gaming was pure, and the entire magazine makes me feel that the gaming landscape across the seas is so much more unpolluted than over here.

I'd buy a subscription, but it's £80.00 for a year. That's about $126, and I could subscribe to practically every U.S. game magazine for that price, even the ones that come with "free" demo discs. Bleh.

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