Flipping through time: How ’90s gaming magazines shaped a generation and what we lost
Revisiting ’90s gaming magazines, their legacy, and how corporate greed killed print gaming journalism
In the ’90s, I read gaming magazines constantly. They were my window into the gaming world, keeping me up to date on new releases, hidden secrets, and gaming culture as a whole. But by the early 2000s, I drifted away from gaming, spending most of my free time playing music, touring, and making art. It wasn’t until COVID hit that I got back into it. My partner introduced me to Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and from there, I started exploring retro games I had missed.
