Thread by @sparklebliss

Good morning from the archive. How about some 1997 "gamer first aid"?

How many magazine ads from the 1990s does it take to actually crush my spirit? I think I am approaching saturation. But what about the content, you say? It doesn't help.

... someone was like, "you know what this ad needs? A family of iguanas. Put tits on the mom iguana."

Here is a feature on Toad's gender. ... I need help reacting to a thing.

This is like CK1+the 5th Element+Pulp Fiction=gamer masculinity? That is some aesthetic.

Rack 2! Trying not to think too hard about the (presumably animal) teeth marks in the issue I am currently reading.

Lotto expert. Ok.

I bet Nancy Reagan loved this game.

This seems ripe for a reboot.

The review breakdown here (bottom right) really highlights the importance of paratexts and the event to which they are part of the game.

Yay! A cat!

Computer Player pays a lot more attention to designers than the other magazines I have reviewed so far. Here is a feature about the makes of Doom.

Last page of that Id software piece.

Erotic game ad vs. erotic game review. Or maybe it is an "erotic" "game"

Yiiiiiikes.

That time everyone at iD was (understandably) real mad about piracy: "It's like watching the meat fly out of your children's mouths." Whut.

Here is a real #digitalhumanities throwback. #transformdh #History #twitterstorians

Windows 95: The New Gaming Platform

Fingerprints: Whoever owned the previously heavily marked up the strategy guides to the games they played.

Windows 95 had no chill.

Getting started with multiplayer!