Game Sack

[midnightrider]

GamePlayers took a weird approach to Ristar as well. Said it was a good game, then pleaded with people not to buy it, so Sega would get the message that people were sick of platformers. They used Dynamite Headdy as an example of Sega's failure in that department. If you recall the time I posted a question to Shigeru Miyamoto about Sonic being a Mario ripoff, that was from that magazine as well. Wish I noticed that shit when I was younger. I'd have used those magazines for toilet paper.

[GohanX]

Oh man, I loved Game Players after they went full Mad Magazine. Half of their review of Blackthorne was showing how fun it was to do a no look shotgun blast at a prisoner who is in chains.

[j_factor]

I didn't like Game Players after they changed their name to Ultra Game Players in honor of the N64. What was that about?

[gamevet]

Bill was annoying as all hell. He was older than I am now, and was trying to act like a 15 year old kid.

[Raijin Z]

Years of dealing with Gazuga and the Coconut Monkey are hard on a man's mind. Bless Bill for fighting the horrors beyond the stars in our stead.

[Team Andromeda]

Gamefan was the best gaming mag ever. I did like EDGE (Next gen was its sister mag) and its mega hardware and developer features.

[Thief]

Gamefan was the best gaming mag ever. I did like EDGE (Next gen was its sister mag) and its mega hardware and developer features.

Yes, I feel like this too. Just so much game passion and great design/layout. Plus Nightmare the Sega Saturn arm of the magazine to represent us.

[Gogogadget]

My mate dug out some old Mean Machines magazines that were a good blast from the past.

Especially when they said the 32X would have an arcade perfect port of Mortal Kombat 2 lol

[Black_Tiger]

Yes, I feel like this too. Just so much game passion and great design/layout. Plus Nightmare the Sega Saturn arm of the magazine to represent us.

"It's all about Jevons Control!"

[cabear]

i have most of those old magazines too, kinda fun to pull them out and read once in awhile. it doesn't make for a great video though haha

[IrishNinja]

as a kid i dug Bill's zany antics, not sure how i'd find them now, heh. don't recall them dumping on Ristar though, gotta go look that one up - again i wanna say i followed Chris Slate & a few of them from late era Game Players to PSM, either by subscription or newstand, i forget which i was doing at the time.

still praise Slate for pushing me to try certain off-putting games like Suikoden, too.

[Thief]

One thing I liked about Ultra Game Players from the few issues that got collected, was the right sense to rate Daytona USA higher then Ridge Racer. Might have been the only mag to do this. So they couldn't have been that crazy after all.

[gamevet]

as a kid i dug Bill's zany antics, not sure how i'd find them now, heh. don't recall them dumping on Ristar though, gotta go look that one up - again i wanna say i followed Chris Slate & a few of them from late era Game Players to PSM, either by subscription or newstand, i forget which i was doing at the time.

still praise Slate for pushing me to try certain off-putting games like Suikoden, too.

That was Bill's angle. His comments were meant to be funny for the teenagers, but as a reader in my 20s, I thought that it was pretty stupid for a guy near 50 years old.

Here's a clip for his fans.

[IrishNinja]

^yeah...i was like 14 in '93/94 or so when i wanna say his shtick was in full effect in the letter column (i recall a whole issue about undead lizard warriors) and as someone reading his non-sequitur shit in between episodes of Ren & Stimpy, i was all about it. i can totally see it feeling corny & forced at a later age though!

[Prince Talmit]

Came upon this Core Designs thread (but not this Core Design thread)while searching the forum to see if there is a dedicated AH3 Thunderstrike Thread (there's not, yet), and lo and behold what did we have there?.. but a link to an early pre-Gamesack video (highlighting scaling games for the Sega CD)
So here's some Gamesack before Gamesack


Edit: A few videos down the line and you might come to this ever relevant; 22 years later, perspective of interactive movies and virtual reality from Siskel & Ebert.