Computer Gaming World

horrorshow said:
I have a SHIT-TON of old CGW's at my moms house in a bigass rubbermaid container.

('96-'04 kinda stuff)

I'm going over there for her bday friday.

Obligatory pics incoming.
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Same here. My wife was getting on me about the multiple bins of CGW and Boot/Maximum PC dating back to the mid 90's. I finally did get rid of them except for the ones which had a Warcraft/ World of Warcraft cover. I posted a picture of each of them in Blizzard's forums. I received numerous offers from other players wanting to buy them off me. I refused though. That is why I kept them in the first place.
 
Man of my word....

(the mag that's open is the oldest - 1996)

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I had some kinda computer magazine back then like in 1989 or so it had Dragons Lair for the PC I wanted that game really bad and some Strip Poker games.
I showed the magazine to my school mates they kept bugging me about the strip poker game lol.
The thing is I didn't even have a PC back then just a console maybe a NES or Genesis.

The magazine that really hit home was Nintendo Fun Club later on which became Nintendo Power.
 
the internet has made print obsolete...even Playboy disappeared for awhile...
 
I still sub to Maximum PC that magazine is awesome...they even have game reviews.
 
polonyc2 said:
the internet has made print obsolete...even Playboy disappeared for awhile...
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Nothing beats pulling a good magazine out of your nightstand, turning the pages, un sticking the pages, the smells, the adventure , right?......:shifty::cautious:
 
Krenum said:
Me too. I think they call them Beta's now?
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They called them beta's back then too. The thing is the definition of 'beta' has changed since then if you ask me. But yeah I miss the old days and those disks somewhat too.
 
I never subscribed to CGW, I'd buy them sometimes if I really wanted to read a specific article. My mom subscribed me to PC Games and PC Accelerator in my tweens/teens and later PC Gamer when the two former went away.
 
Wasn't those discs that came with the magazine called Shareware. I had like 30 discs with Doom or Castle Wolfenstein on them. lol
 
Youngsters... :) Back in my day Creative Computing, 80micro, and Byte were the rags to read. Learned a lot from those magazines - even Z80 assembly language. Got to where I could follow the code from a hex dump of an executable file. Lots of great programs were typed in from the pages of those magazines.
 
SnowBeast said:
Wasn't those discs that came with the magazine called Shareware. I had like 30 discs with Doom or Castle Wolfenstein on them. lol
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Yes. Amusingly some of those 'shareware' games were full installs, but limited until you entered the right product key. It made things.. *ahem* interesting in the days before 'dial home' verification of keys.
 
Krenum said:
Nothing beats pulling a good magazine out of your nightstand, turning the pages, un sticking the pages, the smells, the adventure , right?......:shifty::cautious:
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Agree. I like filling up my bookcase with hardback Warcraft novels.
 
Thanks, this is like the official [H]ard Ole`Farts thread. "Denture Creme to your left, Metamucil to the right, and rocking chair w/dog named Blue next to it in the middle. 5 and quarter inch floppies for chewing on later."
 
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SnowBeast said:
Thanks, this is like the official [H]ard Ole`Farts thread. "Denture Creme to your left, Metamucil to the right, and rocking chair w/dog named Blue next to it in the middle. 5 and half inch floppies for chewing on later."
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i'm not that old yet and i remember all these magazines.. :p
 
SnowBeast said:
Thanks, this is like the official [H]ard Ole`Farts thread. "Denture Creme to your left, Metamucil to the right, and rocking chair w/dog named Blue next to it in the middle. 5 and half inch floppies for chewing on later."
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There weren't any 5.5" floppies that I'm aware of; they were 8", 5.25", or 3.5".

You've probably never even used a hole punch to turn a floppy into a double sided one.

/getoffmylawn
 
SnowBeast said:
Thanks, this is like the official [H]ard Ole`Farts thread. "Denture Creme to your left, Metamucil to the right, and rocking chair w/dog named Blue next to it in the middle. 5 and half inch floppies for chewing on later."
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I turn 35 tomorrow....

Not old, not young....

But I'll be damned if the late 90's / early 2000's wasn't a magical time for PC Gaming!!

WE SAW REVELATIONS!!!!
 
Ebernanut said:
There weren't any 5.5" floppies that I'm aware of; they were 8", 5.25", or 3.5".

You've probably never even used a hole punch to turn a floppy into a double sided one.

/getoffmylawn
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Real men used scissors for the notch.
 
capt_cope said:
Real men used scissors for the notch.
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Yes!! I took an after school class on computers in elementary. Basically learned how to make character go across the screen with what seemed like 300 lines of RUN command in DOS. I think it was DOS, didn't really care for it from there on. IBM 5150 series, thought we were the shit. Had one with a color monitor. Can't remember it too well but I remember doing it. I always like the hardware side of computers. In class I remember as an award for something we did we got to play the first Oregon Trail. lol
 
SnowBeast said:
Yes!! I took an after school class on computers in elementary. Basically learned how to make character go across the screen with what seemed like 300 lines of RUN command in DOS. I think it was DOS, didn't really care for it from there on. IBM 5150 series, thought we were the shit. Had one with a color monitor. Can't remember it too well but I remember doing it. I always like the hardware side of computers. In class I remember as an award for something we did we got to play the first Oregon Trail. lol
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I remember reading magazines and books to learn how to program games. Didn't have a color monitor back then, but overclocking was as easy as moving a jumper. Still have fond memories of Zork.
 
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