An Elegy For Video Game Magazines

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Remember when you’d spend your allowance on some grainy photos of Castlevania IV and trust a cartoon frog to tell you which console to buy? There were tips and also tricks in the same place! We sure do and will go over all the Gamepros and cons from the heyday of video game magazines. How did they start? Why did they die? And shockingly, which one is still being published today?! Want even more Nerd of Mouth? Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/nerdofmouth

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0:00.0	Nerd a mouth.
0:19.6	Fade in.
0:22.5	The year is 1993.
0:31.7	The sound of clattering typewriters fill in the newsroom, as several sweaty young men are hunched over, fiercely working on their next assignments.
0:35.0	Bursting out of the room comes the editor-in-chief.
0:37.1	His brow furrowed.
0:38.7	His sleeves rolled up.
0:40.2	He barks to his men.
0:41.7	All right, God-dammit. I want a three-page article about Lara Croft's next swimsuit special on my desk by Friday.
0:48.1	God-dammit.
0:48.8	Friday.
0:49.5	McGillacutty.
0:51.0	Your name is now Mr.
0:53.5	Frog Ninja Man.
0:54.9	That indicates an Irish accent, by the way.
0:57.0	Go on.
0:57.9	Oh, but my family, they really, they pride themselves on.
1:01.3	And also, Laudercroft, 1993, this seems like an anachronism.
1:05.0	I don't want to hear it.
1:06.4	Now, you better figure out how to get a secret code that lets you have Chun Lee wearing nothing but a schoolgirl costume on my desk by 9 a.m.
1:16.6	Or I will throw your ass out the window.
1:19.0	Stevens.
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