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The game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater

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I'm unsure how popular GameNOW magazine was, but over the course of two years, they pulled off one of the weirdest running gags I've seen in a game magazine, just to have fun at the expense of an irate reader who didn't like Final Fantasy VIII. A little background: even though there were only 27

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The world of Yakuza fan magazines (2009)

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By Jake Adelstein TOKYO: The Japanese mafia, better known as the yakuza, has been the subject of fan magazines for decades.

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PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld's Origins, as Told by David Bunnell

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Introduction by Harry: David Bunnell (1947-2016) didn't create the idea of computer magazines. But he may have done more than anyone to turn them into a big business.

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RetroMags: Download Retro Gaming Magazines

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Retromags is a site dedicated to the digital preservation of old video game magazines!

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The era of American computer magazines has drawn to a close

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I’ve been buying a copy of Maximum PC magazine at the airport newsstand on every long-distance trip I’ve taken over the past two decades. I’m primarily a Mac user but Maximum PC, which started life as boot, bought at these … Continue reading →

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The Underwater Cabaret: A magazine made while hiding from the Nazis in an attic

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The people who hid Curt Bloch, a German Jew, in the crawl space of a Dutch home gave him both food and the materials he needed to make a highly creative magazine now drawing attention.

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Australian Net Guide magazines – Issue 1, March 1996

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I wrote lovingly about Atomic the other day, but the other magazine that I used to devour whenever I had the chance was Australian Net Guide. As a poor kid out in the western suburbs of Melbourne, the local library was the only way I got to read this.

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