I think I have said this before, but even still it bears repeating: I would’ve never imagined that watching a magazine “let’s read” would be so good, and in fact I still think it isn’t inherently a great concept... But YOU make it really fun. The presentation, the spirit of the video, everything is spot on. I love these videos. A+

@famousashtray

5 жыл бұрын

Totally agree! His footnotes and musings are a joy to listen to. He does a great job. I hope he keeps the great content coming!

@moviemetalhead

5 жыл бұрын

Bah, I'm sure the same was said about audio books too Mr. Bladegun.

@dshiznit12a

5 жыл бұрын

Yesss I love these videos

I'm pretty sure I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it (if for no other reason than to give that extra bit of engagement!): I love these videos. Great way to unwind after a long day, and just as good a way to relive the eras in gaming history that I missed by a few years!

Hell of a Friday night; cinemassacre rental review and a CGQ Magazine read through!

@rayzaramon6598

5 жыл бұрын

Man, i watched the same. Great Friday Night viewing.

@wareforcoin5780

5 жыл бұрын

Oh my god, right?? What a way to start a weekend!

@flyingonblades

5 жыл бұрын

maichiki yiist after such a wild night Im thinking about renting some tapes from blockbuster tomorrow ;)

There is something about the way Konami was making games in the NES era that they all had similar soundtracks. The midi instrumentation, specifically the drums, all haves signature “Konami” sound to them.

Listening to retro read-throughs while playing retro computer games (Icewind Dale). Life is good.

Love this channel! For the younger generation, would love to see some 1994-95 issues :)

I dont get a chance to watch as i use to, but i really appreciate these uploads, CGQ. An hours worth of content about a piece of gaming history just appears in my subs. You use to require an overpriced cable or satellite tv subscription to get such content (and it was still spare at that) and had to set time aside to watch it or find a vhs to record else youd miss it. What a time to be alive. On more important note: "Asiaton Oleskelu Kielletty" roughly translates to "Absolutely no fat shaming of the neighbors cat"

Nice! That issue is my birthday month and I was 16. :) Oh for it to be 1991 again!

I miss being a kid in the 90's...

@metatron520

5 жыл бұрын

I miss the 90's

@johneygd

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah me too.

@devingiles6597

5 жыл бұрын

Same here, man.

@mikeysaint4368

5 жыл бұрын

You must have been easily pleased, then, unless you're talking about 1995/6 onwards. The early '90s were awful for games. £40 or $40 for crappy side scrollers which were largely interchangeable, jerky fighting games, mostly unplayable racers, trial and error platforming, repeating the same levels time and time again... I've no nostalgia at all for the 8-bit and 16-bit era because the games were mostly lazy, derivative crap.

@anthonydavalos9275

4 жыл бұрын

I honestly believe we were the last to have good childhoods.

Base Wars was actually really fun. Loved upgrading my robot players for the 1-on-1 battles between bases. Cool twist on the sport.

I know it's been said by many but I Iove these let's read videos so much. They are so relaxing and enjoyable, thank you so much.

@CGQuarterly

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! A new one will be coming out this week.

Smart way to keep content going and bring nostalgia from the older years, love it.

Watched last night but I figure it wouldn't hurt to watch again. Thanks for uploading dood!

Thank you for the great read of the magazine!

Oh wow! i just saw this in the recommended videos on the right side of my youtube and got super excited as soon as I saw it. I set the other video to the side in another tab until I finish your hour long video!!! I can't wait!

This is one of my favorite gaming magazine covers of all time ✌

Absolutely in love with these videos. Your format is amazing; I love looking forward to a CGQ RnR time.

Outstanding work as usual! Still waiting on a let’s read episode of the Official Nintendo Player’s Guide. I haven’t given up on that yet🙏🏻

Really appreciate this upload. Going to relax on my day off with this on the background while playing switch/spiderman. Loved gamepro but I didn’t subscribe until about 93... So I never seen this issue. Miss those days so these videos definitely holds it down. Thanks.

@KewieCRC420

5 жыл бұрын

I know you don’t like new games much but you should definitely play Spider-man. Lol anyways, my question is have you ever played or heard of Ranger X on the Genesis? It’s such a late release gem that nobody talks about. I like it that way but you’re chill so I don’t mind telling you about it. Check it out and maybe you can stream it.

Time to grab a six pack and snacks. Lets DO THIS!

@KGB240

5 жыл бұрын

No one said they couldn't be healthy snacks.

@emarskineel

5 жыл бұрын

The word snacks makes me want to die. Please help me

@markganus1085

5 жыл бұрын

a couple of female entertainers would also be a welcome addition to an otherwise pleasant evening.

Awesome episode and thanks for the postcard!

Phenomenal episode. Love this channel!

Your DollarShaveCLub advert that you put together made me laugh!!

Man I absolutely love this. When I was young I spent a lot of time in the hospital and I was luckily enough to be able to have the library order these in. I absolutely remember this one. The cover is iconic and it was a very popular issue.

Huge fan of your work! I can't believe you have another channel I don't know about !!

Aww snap, i used to read gamepro religiously

I was one of the ones that didnt know you had another channel lol! Great stuff man

@slaytanicsabbath

5 жыл бұрын

Me too I'm glad I saw this comment cause it was pretty deep into the video that he mentioned it. Thanks man!

great idea, have watched a few of these. Sometimes I post pictures from older comics of magazines on my Instagram. I enjoy these, and you have a good voice/narration

Love these episodes!

Those stickers look great. I follow Steve Nazar on Instagram. I love his art. For those old fogies who remember T&C Surf Designs, the company and the two games for NES, Steve designed the characters.

I love how you relate your experiences with seemingly every game out there! I gotta say, I tried a couple games like StormLord and Warbirds and really couldn't get into them. That might have been different if I played them back when 16-bit was the best thing available though.

As always another great episode!!

Jesus Christ we're getting old.😓

@ottosantiagolassus

5 жыл бұрын

Eddie O I know man! It sucks😥

@ninjamaster3453

5 жыл бұрын

@@ottosantiagolassus better than the alternative

@markganus1085

5 жыл бұрын

age isn't a disease. embrace it and be a good middle aged man

This takes me back as I was a loyal GamePro reader from 1990 - 1995 before I moved on to GameFan. I love this content!

Love any of the magazine read-throughs from 1991. After having lost interest in the NES by 1991, a visit to my friend's and seeing his Genesis hooked me back in home consoles. I picked up my Genesis with Altered Beast and a mail-in voucher for Sonic from Babbage's in July 1991.

28:33 this evokes memories of an unpleasant experience. one related to a certain nes game. action 52, to be exact

Just got off of work and am too tired to play anything so this will be perfect to kill the hour before my wife gets home. Thumbs up , buddy.

"I like shooting fish in space. " -Darius fan

Thank you Canada for all you do and for all your nation is! I live in the U.S. and I'm jelly!

My initial encounter with Sonic was when one of my friends let me borrow his Genesis unbelievably shortly after he bought it with Sonic, over a weekend when he would be out of town, when I was walking back to his house to return it I unfortunately got approached by a couple of unsavory characters who pulled out a screwdriver on me and pressed it against my stomach and demanded I give them whatever I had on me, without saying I immediately handed over the Genesis with Sonic I was carrying in a shopping bag, still begging and pleading that they just give it back based on the fact that it didn't belong to me, but they just laughed jumped in a car and took off. Upon telling my Mom I really was freightened at what I had got myself into, but my Mom hard working and honest as she always was advise me to let my friend know and not worry about it, but surprisingly to me at the time she didn't care about me getting mugged for the Genesis which at the time was about 180.00 bucks and was something she would never buy for me because of how strained we we're for cash growing up, but she was way more thankful that I wasn't hurt. When I told my friend he actually was the one that disappointed me the most and actually hurt me a bit claiming he didn't believe my "story" and felt I simply didn't want to give it back...when I told my Mom about his reaction she just stayed quiet and told to get ready so we could take care of the matter, I initially thought we would go to my friend's house and explain the situation, ..but to my surprise we headed to a Woolworths we're to my disbelief she asked me what I had got stolen I pointed at the Genesis and she bought it outright, we then walked to my friend's receipt in hand and I was able to not only disprove my friend in his disbelief, but realized how unbelievably incredible my mother was and how loving she still is to me, and being just 13 it was a great valuable lesson and an example of a mother's true love for her son, despite the Genesis she bought was for someone else's kid,...as far as me getting a Genesis for myself I never actually did till I bought one of someone else several years later for about 30 bucks...but the memory of my mother and Genesis live on, btw appreciate all you do Chris, thanks bud👍

48:00 on the right page is an ad to sell games to Game Dude in Van Nuys, CA which is still in that same location.

One of the video store advertisers in this magazine still exists today. Game Dude located in San Fernando Valley, CA

@CGQuarterly

3 жыл бұрын

I've been there!

@gmughadam76

3 жыл бұрын

@@CGQuarterly I used to frequent that place quite a bit but the employees who work there come on off as jerks a lot. Been a bout a year since ive been there. As far as you know are there any other video game stores that are still open that used to advertise in these magazines back in our day...?

I had that issue cause I had the subscription..every page you turned I remember just like it was yesterday..crazy and cool

Great video. So Gameboy light accessories...if you grew up in the midwest your family spent a fair amount of time on the road. A good amount of that time was in the dark, especially fall/winter months. Let me tell you, these lights were crucial if you wanted to play on the go.

@CGQuarterly

5 жыл бұрын

Makes sense!

Nice video. I love your work !

Yes!....I am such a nerd.

Great video, I don't mind these long videos at all.

7:55 - This is what I always felt like too. The best ads to me as a kid were just the ones that showed enough big screenshots that I got a good idea of what the game was like. Most of these game ads just felt like marketing agencies trying to be clever in ways that never actually appealed to their core demographic.

Fun fact, the advertisement for Game Dude, they're still in business.

@CGQuarterly

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah! I've actually been there, once. Cool store.

I used to buy Game Pro back in the day....I even had that battle toads Full poster from the Magazine!!

Man that's cool about the Canadian Judge and Game Genie ! I bought one that very year in late 1991

I loved Base Wars when I was a kid.

Best sponsor ad ever!

I miss lookin at these in the store to find things like MKII moves.

Vice: Project Doom or Gun Dec, as I knew it then (because i had a japanese bootleg cartridge), was my favourite game as a kid. I liked it even more than Ninja Gaiden II which was my other favourite game on NES.

I played Trax as a kid and really enjoyed it but forgot about the name so could never find it until recently. It's still super enjoyable!

Chris: "My other channel CGQ+" Chris: "Somehow there are still people on this channel who don't know about my other channel" Also Chris: "I try to keep that channel on the down-low" yeah right.

Wait, and you're 41? no way!

Late 80s early 90s the golden age of video games for me for sure.

Enjoyed this episode a little more than usual, because one of my favorite GamePro issues also came out in 1991. I still have it, somewhere. It’s a bit roughed-up by now, but still mostly intact. 🍻

@CGQuarterly

5 жыл бұрын

Which issue is it?

@anerkind

5 жыл бұрын

I don't know for sure, it's buried. I'll be moving all of that stuff in the coming months. If I find it, I'll report back.

That issue was my first GamePro magazine. Which was the beginning to a good few years of subscribing to the magazine.

"When these articles go too long and spoil too much of the game." That was always the problem with a lot of the more screenshot heavy magazines back in the day, and it was hard to know how bad it was until you finally got the game and realized how much they'd already given away. I recently did a video covering a bunch of old Nintendo Official Magazines from the UK and man, they gave away the entirety of the first Ocarina of Time dungeon before the game even came out. Had a tendency to show every single stage and weapon/ability for most titles in the review on launch. It got really bad from them.

THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gamepro should be on EVERY single episode of "let's read" Love this issue and love this episode.

Damn, I bought this magazine when it was new. My first Gamepro.

Great month and year, it was when I graduated high school. I was so happy to be released into the wild. Lol I was totally gaming it up still during that time too.

Wow I saw Toys For Bob developed Star Control. I first heard of them for their work on Crash Bandicoot Reignited Trilogy. Interesting they have been around so long.

I like those reseller ads at the back of these old magazines. I remember when I was in high school I bought Mega Man (the first one) for NES from one of those. I guess my first foray into "retro gaming"...

I know a guy who worked at Game Dude and he claimed that the people who mostly order/or ordered from their back magazine catalog ads are/were prison inmates. Apparently, they are still their main target consumers, which I found quite interesting.

Nice. Used to love getting Gamepro so much. Dont think had this one though

l think Air Fortress is a hidden gem for a early nes game. I love how the guy controls in the air bases. It's the first time I would think of physics in a video game.

Deja Vu II was the other MacVenture title you were thinking of. It never got an NES release. Shadowgate was so popular because it was the first one released on NES. Ironically it was created after Deja Vu and Uninvited on home computers.

Incidentally, 3 inch stickers are perfect for the lid of the Gamecube.

I had Base Wars when I was a kid (or at least I think I did.) I loved it back then, but haven't played it in years.

Mani wish I had kept all my old Nintendo power magazines and Gamepros. Started getting both at the end of 1994 and got them until about 2002ish. Lugged them around for years living in different places and finally just threw them away. God it kills me now

@estebancruz6194

5 жыл бұрын

That sucks. I wasnt suscribed to anything but threw away the few magz a i had. Now im trying to buy some back, but they are so expensive.

My Mom *loved* Monopoly on the NES! I remember she’d get on the NES when I went to sleep and play for an hour or two. We’d also play against each other sometimes. She beat me. A lot! It was a lot easier to fire up the NES than pull out the actual board, set it up, deal with the money, keep track of the houses and all that stuff.

GamePro and EGM were like my bibles when I was a kid in the early 90’s.

I was 4 months old when this magazine came out

Some quick thoughts: I had the same experience with Super Tecmo Bowl as you did. I really enjoyed Welltris on the PC. And where I live had the same Good Guys, Circuit City, and Toy 'R Us configuration as you did.

I miss these gamepro magazines back in the days

Maaan, you're not kidding about Monopoly. The only fun board game i really played and loved was Trouble! Also, I'm thinking we got our Genesis consoles around the same time. Great read thru. I remember falli g in Love w/ the Stormlord advertisement. I may ACTUALLY check out the game. Totally forgot about it. Also, the beginning of Hudson Hawk was filmed where i live. (By Sing Sing Prison) . Will send a Postcard from here soon.

Star Control was the SHIT my dude. Spent hours and hours and hours in team battle mode with my boys. The ships & the balancing were perfect by 91 standards.

For some reason, I preferred EGM over Gamepro. Maybe it was the overall layout

50:05 Tecmo Super Bowl was actually released in December of 1991.

I absolutely love your channel! Was wondering if you have any magazines that happen to have beta screen shots of any sonic games??

@CGQuarterly

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I don't recall seeing any...

Love how some ppl seem to think that Wonderboy copied Adventure Island, when it was actually more the other way around! Wonderboy came first!

great vid

I think you'd like Rocketeer the movie Chris. I know I enjoyed it. Sort of a like a classic adventure story from the 1930's. The game wasn't too bad IMO. Great job with the read-thru! The Base Wars game reminds me a lot of Cyberball for Sega Genesis which is an awful football game. I agree with you 100% the Turbo Grafix's ad was a big missed opportunity as they were fighting for market share and attention. As I've told you before, I saw ads for it occasionally but I couldn't name anyone that I knew that had one. Great work Chris, and Dollar Shave better be happy with the effort you put into those ads.

love your videos.

by the way, this specific issue of GamePro was sort of controversial. The editorial staff wanted a Sonic the Hedgehog cover - this new game we saw and were blown away with. The publisher wanted a Bugs Bunny cover - for some Bugs Bunny Gameboy title that was coming out. The battle ended up being a split decision - half the magazines ran with the Sonic cover, the other half with the Bugs Bunny cover. Which ended up pissing off a ton of people because the distribution got screwed up so that both issues showed up in some areas, and people bought both thinking they were two different issues

before even watching i just have to say ....HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!

@5:00 Base Wars sound designers were Tomoko Sumiyama and Shigemasa Matsuo, since the TMNT sound design isn't credited from the same developer and it sounds completely the same, you're probably right. Check out Laser Invasion kzread.info/dash/bejne/lHuKpJRmeLHNqdY.html#t=13m40s which they did between both titles, definitely that same groove. ;)

Yrah indeedthis video was very long, raising in sleep but it was interesting that they mentioned many games such as batman,nagaya,sonic etc,,, but those subjects such as region convertors or how to win a sega genesis was really interesting.

And yea, I so agree about that Turbo CD ad. My first thought was "really?". Those screenshots that are there don't even look like games! Definitely doesn't make me want to buy one. Whoever did their advertising needed to be fired badly! It's as much NEC's fault for not recognizing the problem as it was the advertiser itself.

Video games especially disc games can be sent media mail for $2.92

I was dead when this came out

Wait, you have another channel?!?

fun (random) fact 6:50 - walmart canada got its start by buying all the going-out-of-business woolco stores.

The guy on the cover of Vice Project Doom looks more like Treat Williams, to me.

Hey can you do a history of game pro video? I've been searching for a video so I can see a bunch of magazines I use to read as a kid but there aren't any. Keep up the awesome work & talk to ya next time

my friend lent me those multicarts that came with the adapter to play famicom games. never gave it back