CRTGAMER wrote:Back at the OP I posted a link to PDFs for a great older Arcade mag called JoyStik.
Curious for anyone who read the PDFs, comments?
Oh, sorry, I checked an issue or two and liked it a lot. I was incredibly surprised at how harsh they are on Zaxxon! Not so much about the game itself, for some reason many people are irked by it, but how open they were about it!
I haven't read them because I want to look at them with a notebook on one hand and the KLOV in the other and get into them. The format also looks very, very good, I would have bought them inmediatedly back in the day. One issues even has an article by Isaac Asimov!
Thanks a lot for the links, I'm saving the mags in my computer. And if anyone knows other magazines of the era, let me know!
ZeroAX gave me an issue of Retrogamer and let me read some of their digital issues and while it isn't what I'm looking for anymore, anyone who thinks a Magazine can provide them with good stuff if they covered their topics will greatly enjoy this one. I specially like their selection of articles and any magazine who drops the title "Hard Drivin''" and doesn't bat an eye is cool in my book.
Of the books I have heard about, I want to get
Ultimate History of Video Games. It's not overly expensive and I have heard very good things about it. I have also heard good things about
Arcade Mania and while I'm extremely wary of books, it seems like one of the good sources on Japanese arcade information, which I'm extremely interested in.
I might also get
Masters of Doom, which I'm sure will be overly interesting but isn't a history book. The low price helps, tough.
Once I get the books, expect an in-detph review of them, I have found very little information on gaming books and we really need it.
On other topic, I would kill to go to Japan, open Sega's vault and see OutRun's design documents to write a book about it. But it isn't happening =/