Old memorable CGW covers

[VashHT]

So the "Gaming for Windows" magazine died recently, formerly known as Games for Windows.

My friend and I were looking at some memorable covers, figured I'd just post them here.

12 million$ game? plus some other great games in this issue.

Next big PC game?, obviously not, became the star FPS for consoles.

Threw this in for kicks, lots of great games on the cover

And finally, are DOS games really dead? I just thought this one was funny.

 

[WT]

I think I may still have the issue that they (p)reviewed the Diamond Edge 3D, the first 3D accelerator card. The mag was about twice as thick back then as the mags still in business. Ohh, and Computer Shopper ?? You could burn one in a wood stove and keep the family warm for DAYS with that mailbox buster !

 

[Craig234]

Oh, crap, ANOTHER PC Gaming magazine shut down?

All that leaves is PC Gamer? Sheesh. I remember having 4 subscriptions...

 

[Zenoth]

"System Shock 2 Reviewed"

*drools*

 

[Nightmare225]

Originally posted by: Craig234
Oh, crap, ANOTHER PC Gaming magazine shut down?

All that leaves is PC Gamer? Sheesh. I remember having 4 subscriptions...

Everything's going online these days...

It's a sign of the times.

 

[erwos]

GFW was actually not a bad magazine - I got a free subscription somewhere, and it was really decent reading. They didn't inflate their scores too highly, and the discourse wasn't overly fanboyish (looking at you, GamePro!). I'll miss 'em.

 

[WT]

Honestly, my #1 gripe now isn't the 'death' of PC gaming (geez, another death thread ?) but the death of print articles. I guess the young kids can't comprehend it, but I still yearn for a '65 Mustang, not because its any better than any car out these days, but because it was my first car and brings back memories of a time when I was just a teen, with no idea what I was going to do in life, but ... I had a freakin' CAR !!
Its clearly obvious that web articles are much more timely and current than print mags, but I could sit and read it at my leisure, without having my @ss planted in my PC chair. But nostalgia isn't enough to pay the bills at those mags, so once again, technology's march towards a different approach is not always a perfect solution, but rather a nod to the generation that wants their info here and now.

Someday, that first car nostalgia will catch up to you guys in your 20's.

 

[Noema]

Browsing through the covers at the website you linked sure brings back old memories, specially the covers from 1992 to 1996 (I stopped buying CGW because they stopped importing it to Mexico. I had to settle with PC Gamer but I never really liked it...too juvenile and thin with content).

RIP CGW/GFW.

 

[CP5670]

I still have some of the issues from 1998 to 2000, somewhere in the basement. Those covers look very familiar.

Originally posted by: WT
I think I may still have the issue that they (p)reviewed the Diamond Edge 3D, the first 3D accelerator card. The mag was about twice as thick back then as the mags still in business. Ohh, and Computer Shopper ?? You could burn one in a wood stove and keep the family warm for DAYS with that mailbox buster !

Computer Shopper was enormous. I used to stare at it all day back then. I got my TNT and Voodoo2 after going by some ads I saw in there.

 

[Lithan]

Damn what was that magazine I used to get as a kid? I think it was just called PC Games. Or maybe PC Gamer. It was pretty meh. Nice layout and visuals but only like 50 pages of content with 75 pages of adds and they only reviewed hardware that was $400+ (massive speaker sets, vibrating chairs, etc) and game reviews were all asskiss fests.

I read a few CGW's but can't say I remember the magazine all that well.

 

[EarthwormJim]

Was always a good magazine for the crapper. Fast read so I didn't spend so much time on the toilet that my legs went numb.

Pretty soon there won't be any printed gaming magazines, then I'll be left reading novels.

Hope I don't get stuck on a toilet trying to read a novel...

 

[Arglebargle]

Originally posted by: WT
Honestly, my #1 gripe now isn't the 'death' of PC gaming (geez, another death thread ?) but the death of print articles. I guess the young kids can't comprehend it, but I still yearn for a '65 Mustang, not because its any better than any car out these days, but because it was my first car and brings back memories of a time when I was just a teen, with no idea what I was going to do in life, but ... I had a freakin' CAR !!
Its clearly obvious that web articles are much more timely and current than print mags, but I could sit and read it at my leisure, without having my @ss planted in my PC chair. But nostalgia isn't enough to pay the bills at those mags, so once again, technology's march towards a different approach is not always a perfect solution, but rather a nod to the generation that wants their info here and now.

Someday, that first car nostalgia will catch up to you guys in your 20's.

You tend to fixate on things that were cool when you were 13. For some the clock ticks a little slower though.

 

[blckgrffn]

Originally posted by: EarthwormJim
Was always a good magazine for the crapper. Fast read so I didn't spend so much time on the toilet that my legs went numb.

Pretty soon there won't be any printed gaming magazines, then I'll be left reading novels.

Hope I don't get stuck on a toilet trying to read a novel...

Looking over at the clock and realizing that you have been sitting there for an hour is quite the b!tch