Retro Gaming Magazine

[triverse]

Hello, I am the publisher, or whatever the guys is called that is behind this type of thing, of Retro Gaming Magazine.  We tried launching this magazine back in January of 2012 but after we added on more staff than what was probably required to launch the first shuttle, it went nowhere.  This is the reboot of the reboot of the magazine and this time, we are going to do it.  We have learned from offering another magazine, Gaming on Batteries Magazine (http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/416376) many valuable tips on tidbits that we are putting to good use with RGM.

Here are a couple of pages from the preview we put together oh so many years ago:



The full preview can be had here:  http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/315758 There is no publisher markup on the print edition, the price charged is the price that Magcloud charges to print it.  The digital is set to free.

That preview is rough, it was really the first thing I ever designed with our magazine layout software and it has gotten better as evidenced by GoB Mag (we made it to issue #3 before I got tired of throwing good money after a mag no one was buying).

We are open to contributors and we will be buying articles and editorials so get your typing skills brushed up and lets make some magic.

We will be launching the new site soon, which will be in line with what we already offer on our other sites as far as style and design.

Some info on the mag as it stands now:

60 to 80 pages gloss pages like Gamefan on 80# paper
No reviews
No news
Features and editorials
Print and digital versions
Subscriptions from day one will be available (save by subscribing)

If you are interested in helping us craft the magazine we currently have a couple of things we are looking for community input on:

First, the cover. We are running a contest to create the cover. We are looking for clear, high resolution, photos of games in a pile. The games in question would be from SNES, Genesis and TG-16/PC-Engine.

The chosen picture will earn the person that submitted it a free copy of the first issue in print and digital. This prize is valued at about $21 total.

Second, we are needing votes on that cover feature. The article is being referred to as "Cross Platform Gaming" at the moment. It will focus on games that were available for SNES and Genesis. We need votes on which version of each game was the better of the two.

We will also be doing a feature on the TG-16/PC-Engine in a title specific "must own" piece. Votes are being collected for this too.

We ask that each person submitting votes to please keep them to about 5 games per system. This is because we may use your top 5 list in the mag. If we do, you will receive a free copy of the digital. This prize is valued at about $1 to $3 (we haven't set the price yet).

Don't know what games were shared between the Genesis and SNES? No problem, the list is below:

3 Ninjas Kick Back
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
Addams Family, the
Adventures of Batman and Robin
Adventures of Mighty Max, the
Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle and Friends, the
Aero the Acrobat
Aero the Acrobat 2
Aerobiz
Aerobiz: Supersonic
Aladdin
Alien 3
American Gladiators
Andre Agassi Tennis
Animiacs
Art of Fighting
B.O.B.
Ballz 3D
Barkley: Shut Up and Jam!
Bass Masters Classic
Bass Masters Classic: Pro Edition
Batman Forever
Batman Returns
Battletoads/Double Dragon
Beavis and Butthead
Best of the Best Championship Karate
Bill Walsh College Football
Bonkers
Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure
Boxing: Legends of the Ring
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Brett Hull Hockey '95
Brutal: Paws of Fury
Bubsy II
Bubsy: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind
Bulls vs. Blazers and the NBA Playoffs
Cal Ripken Jr. Baseball
Captain America and the Avengers
Castlevania IV/Bloodlines
Champions World Class Soccer
Championship Pool
Chavez II
Chester Cheetah: Too Cool to Fool
Chester Cheetah: Wild Wild Quest
Chuck Rock
Clayfighter
Cliffhanger
Clue
College Football USA '97: The Road to New Orleans
College Slam
Cool Spot
Cutthroat Island
David Crane's Amazing Tennis
Death and Return of Superman, the
Demolition Man
Desert Strike: Return to the Strike
Doom Troopers: The Mutant Chronicles
Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Earthworm Jim
Earthworm Jim 2
ESPN Baseball Tonight
ESPN National Hockey Night
ESPN Speedworld
ESPN Sunday Night NFL
Family Feud
Fatal Fury
Fatal Fury 2
FIFA International Soccer
FIFA Soccer '96
Flashback: The Quest for Identity
Flintstones, the
Foreman For Real Boxing
Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball
Frogger
Fun 'n Games
Gemfire
Genghis Khan 2: Clan of the Gray Wolf
George Foreman's KO Boxing
Ghouls 'n Ghosts/Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Gods
Great Circus Mystery starring Mickey and Minnie, the
Great Waldo Search, the
Hardball III
Head-On Soccer
Hit the Ice
Home Alone
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Hook
Incredible Crash Dummies, the
Incredible Hulk, the
Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings
Jammit
Jeopardy!
Jeopardy! Deluxe Edition
Jeopardy! Sports Edition
Joe & Mac
John Madden Football
John Madden Football '93
Judge Dredd
Jungle Book, the
Jurassic Park
Justice League Task Force
Kawasaki Superbike Challenge
King of Monsters
King of Monsters 2
Last Action Hero
Lawnmower Man, the
Lemmings
Lemmings 2: The Tribes
Lethal Enforcers
Liberty or Death
Lion King, the
Lost Vikings (SG +5 levels)
Madden NFL '94
Madden NFL '95
Madden NFL '96
Madden NFL '97
Madden NFL '98
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Math Blasters Episode 1
Maximum Carnage
Mickey Mania: Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse (Sega CD +level)
Mickey's Ultimate Challenge
Micro Machines
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie
Miracle Piano Teaching System, the
MLBPA Baseball
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat 3
Mortal Kombat II
Ms. Pac-Man
NBA Hang Time
NBA Jam
NBA Jam Tournament Edition
NBA Live 95
NBA Live 96
NBA Live 97
NBA Live 98
NCAA Final Four Basketball
NCAA Football
Newman Haas IndyCar featuring Nigel Mansell
NFL Quarterback Club
NFL Quarterback Club 96
NHL 94
NHL 95
NHL 96
NHL 97
NHL 98
NHLPA Hockey 93
Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing
No Escape
Nobunaga's Ambition
Operation Europe: Path to Victory 1939-45
Out of this World
Pac-Attack
Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures
Pagemaster, the
Paperboy 2
PGA Tour III/PGA Tour 96 on SNES
PGA Tour Golf
Phantom 2040
Pink Goes to Hollywood
Pinocchio
Pirates of Dark Water
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Pit-Fighter
Populous
Primal Rage
Prince of Persia
Pro Quarterback
PTO: Pacific Theater of Operations
Puyo Puyo series (Kirbys Avalanche, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine)
Race Drivin'
Radical Rex
Raiden (Trad on SNES)
Rampart
Revolution X featuring Aerosmith
Rock 'N Roll Racing
Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball
Romance of the Three Kingdoms II
Romance of the Three Kingdoms III
Samurai Shodown
Saturday Night Slam Masters
Scooby-Doo Mystery
SeaQuest DSV
Shadowrun
Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye
Shag-Fu
Side Pocket
Simpsons, the: Bart's Nightmare
Simpsons, the: Krusty's Super Funhouse
Simpsons, the: Virtual Bart
Soldiers of Fortune
Sparkster
Spider-Man (Fox Kids version)
Spider-Man/Venom: Maximum Carnage
Spider-Man/Venom: Separation Anxiety
Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge
Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Crossroads of Time
Stargate
Steel Talons
Street Fighter Series
Sunset Riders
Super Baseball 2020
Super Battleship
Super Battletank: War in the Gulf
Super High Impact
Super Off-Road
Super Smash TV
Syndicate
T2: The Arcade Game
Taz-Mania
Tecmo Super Baseball
Tecmo Super Bowl
Tecmo Super Bowl II: Special Edition
Tecmo Super Bowl III: Final Edition
Tecmo Super NBA Basketball
Terminator, the
Test Drive II: The Duel
Theme Park
Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
Tick, the
TMNT Tournament Fighters
TMNT Turtles in Time/Hyperstone Heist
TNN Bass Tournament of Champions
Thunder Force III/Thunder Spirits
Top Gear 2
Toy Story
Toys
Troy Aikman NFL Football
True Lies
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Uncharted Waters
Uncharted Waters: New Horizons
Urban Strike: The Sequel to Jungle Strike
Warlock
Warpspeed
Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars
Wayne's World
WeaponLord
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Tale
Wheel of Fortune
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
Williams Arcade Greatest Hits
Wolfchild
Wolverine: Adamantium Rage
World Cup 94
World Heroes
WWF RAW
WWF Royal Rumble
WWF Super Wrestlemania
WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game
Y's III: Wanderer From Y's
Zero: The Kamikaze Squirrel
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Zool: Ninja of the Nth Dimension
Zoop

[TrekMD]

Thanks for posting about the magazine here, triverse.  After seeing your original post on NintendoAge, I thought it would be a good thing to share here on RVG.  That's quite the list of games shared between the Genesis and the SNES, by the way!

[triverse]

Thanks for the invite.  I am enjoying it here quite a bit.  Plenty of conversations and people that know how to actually talk!  That is great for forums.

The list may not be complete, I have read that the total is either 200 or 250 games shared dual releases. 

[TrekMD]

Glad to see you're liking it.   

200 to 250 games?  Dang, that's a lot!

[triverse]

Yea, I didn't realize there were that many games that were on both systems.  I would throw TG-16 into the mix but it would be a rather short list at that point, even counting the Japanese games.  TG-16 received a lot more from the NES than it did either Genesis or SNES.

I compiled that list over this last weekend, about 12 hours comparing forum posts with official release lists.  Not fun but oh so worth it to offer it up to fans to vote on.

[TrekMD]

I'm impressed it's that many titles.  Would make for quite an interesting discussion comparing the games on both systems.  We have some threads comparing games on various systems here.  Maybe we need to start one comparing these two systems!  At least there's a list of games already! 

[triverse]

That would be awesome, especially considering this one feature article is getting, at the moment, 25 pages in the first issue (will probably be 30 by the time we are done).  It is not just a list like those preview pages but more in depth to the differences and why one version is picked over the other type of thing. 

[Shadowrunner]

Sounds good so far!  Great job on that list too 

[triverse]

Thanks, Shadow.

[Greyfox]

Fantastic work fella, will look into more, amongst other things know myself how hard it is to create an entire magazine from scratch and the difficulties in getting it out there, we ourselves created a magazine for Homebrew entertainment called Homebrew Heroes and you can check it out here : www.homebrewheroes.co.uk , check out the video preview and flipbook sample and I think there is a PDF demo mag there too!

But delighted you've signed up, and hope to see more of this retro lovely-ness

[TL]

Excellent stuff, I am really looking forward to seeing more of this.

If you are looking for another writer then please let me know, as I could probably help.

As well as writing around half the reviews in the review guide on here I was also the lead writer and Editor-In-Chief of Homebrew Heroes.

But not only that, I am also a regular writer for the award winning Retro Gamer magazine (which I am sure you have heard of) as well as being a regular writer for Retro Fusion and was one of the writers for the now defunct Pixel Nation magazine. Oh and I nearly forgot, I am also the lead writer for Atari User magazine too!  :16:

[Greyfox]

Your shameless-ness knows no bounds that's for sure 

[TrekMD]

Well, the reality is that several of us could probably contribute! 

[TL]

Well, the reality is that several of us could probably contribute!  :3:

[triverse]

I am open to having more contributors on board with this. We are aiming for about 80 pages per issue on a bimonthly release schedule.  We are aiming to NOT be what every other retro, and modern, gaming magazine has been in the past. 

We won't be publishing yet more reviews of Super Mario Bros 3 or Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting Diamond Dimensional Day-glow Edition or anything like that. 

We will be doing reviews and such but they will be on the site and used to bring in traffic which we hope will have a good percentage convert into buying the mag.  The site will be used to mainly push the mag basically.

The magazine will be focused on stuff not available elsewhere, otherwise why would anyone support it?