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Deadly Discs
dear retro gamer, i’m sure you thought you had got rid of us. the old ones, from ‘the before times’ – but some of us remained, ever vigilant, waiting for a sign of weakness. now, we scent blood.
By all that, i mean that now you’re doing cover-mounted gifts at a higher price point again, you’ve got no excuses. So can we please have the iconic cover discs from the live Publishing era back?
Pete youngman
the old cover disc format wouldn’t work too well anymore – they were a cool idea when most homes didn’t have broadband connections, but we’re now at the point where they do. However, if the right kind of disc-based gift came along, we’d definitely consider it.
Beautiful By Design
hello rg, i’m a fan from across the pond in orlando, florida and i’m about four issues into my subscription so far. i’ve been thoroughly enjoying the issues, not only as a fan of games, but as a designer. i’m a graphic artist at a print company myself and i really enjoy the clever ways your team implements the design of the articles to reflect the games that they’re about.
i’ve also noticed some naysayers in the fan mail sections complaining about “boo hoo this isn’t retro, that isn’t retro” etc. haters gonna hate, i really enjoyed the great coverage of the Xbox a few issues back. the
Ps2/xbox/gamecube era is great for getting into collecting now and i think it makes perfect sense to talk about these games.
keep up the great work, fellas. maxwell nolan
thanks for the kind words, especially regarding design – we often ask tricky things of sam, like the MUD feature in this issue, and his design work always manages to add value to the features.
as for the Ps2, Xbox and gamecube, we’re happy with how things went with last year’s coverage and we’re glad to hear that you are too. we won’t be doing more than one feature per issue focusing on these more recent retro systems, but they are definitely here to stay now.
treasure island Quizzy
dear Sir, recently a friend and i enjoyed a gaming marathon on his old Playstation and PS2 consoles – not on arcade games or first-person shooters, but a couple of quiz games!
We literally spent hours on both
The Weakest Link and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, and hearing both
anne robinson and Chris tarrant again brought back many fond memories of when they used to host on television.
this set me thinking: have any other quiz shows made it onto computer or console format? d o’conner
there are quite a few, as it turns out. If you’re looking for the classics, 8-bit computer owners were able to enjoy versions of A Question Of Sport, Blockbusters, Mastermind, Countdown and Mike Read’s
Pop Quiz. Wheel Of Fortune has appeared on many formats over the years, as has american favourite Jeopardy. the last real champion of quiz show games seems to have been the nintendo Ds, which hosted games like Eggheads. these days, adaptations of popular quiz shows like The Chase and Pointless get released straight to mobile. of games for the system which i enjoy. one in particular is Tales Of Symphonia, which is, to be honest – brilliant. Just the battle with abyssion says it all. life, trusting, understanding etc.
Please can you do a feature on Tales Of Symphonia, as i would be really interested as to who you would prefer to battle out of everyone in the game. and, i would really like to find out if anybody has completed the figurine book.
By the way, i have not subscribed to your mag yet, as i’m broke, but i will be as soon as i can. tim Barnett Tales Of Symphonia is definitely something we could cover now, as is the entire Tales series – the first entry, Tales Of Phantasia, was released in 1995 on the snes. we haven’t got anything lined up right now, but it’s a game that we’d like to cover in the future.