Forgotten Worlds Issue #4 & #5 "A Magazine About Making A Magazine About Old Video Games Magazines!" @american80s #Retrogaming

Forgotten Worlds Issue #4 is 'A magazine about old video games magazines' (it says so on the front.)

This wonderful insight into the world of old video games magazines piqued my interest immediately and just so happens that it coincided with me just finishing reading Julian 'Jaz' Rignall's Book 'Games Of A Lifetime' so I was well in the mood for some more old video game mag stories and histories.

Forgotten Worlds takes us on a fantastically detailed and interesting journey that begins in the early 80s with the pioneer magazines such as CVG and Electronic games and takes us right up until the fall of magazines and the dawn of the internet era video game websites.

The issue then launches into a couple of great interviews with the key video game magazine figures from the time who give us a real insight into the crazy days of magazine publishing in the 80s and 90s. Featured interviews include Richard Leadbetter (Mean Machines, Digital Foundry etc) and Dan Hsu (former EGM Editor).

There's also some great profiles of some of my favourite magazines from over the years, such as Mean Machines, Super Play, Hyper and the world famous U.S magazine Game Pro.

If you love the magazines of the 90s as much as I do then this issue will have you salivating for more (go check out Jaz's book then! 

Forgotten Worlds Issue #5 is a different proposition altogether and had me hooked from the minute I opened its baby blue pages of this 29 page 'Zine'...

This issue is super meta and talks brass tacks about the process about making video games magazines about old video games magazines! If you like the details and the insight into how someone plans and executes on making a creative project work in 2025 then this is a great read laid out in a way that is very digestible and is likely to inspire you to do your own project on Video Games Magazines (it gave us some great insight into what one of our peers sees as important from a social media point of view too, fascinating stuff indeed)

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