this is the digital future?
Wow, this sucks. I love Retro Gamer, it’s a monthly mag covering the history of gaming with great writers and mostly-fantastic subjects. It’s also British, which means it costs not a small amount at Borders or the like. So, when I saw a Retro Gamer iPad app, one that offered cheap digital subscriptions and a nice backissue library for $4.99 a piece, I took the plunge.
The $1.99 price with a free copy of the latest issue (covering the history of Doom, yay!) didn’t hurt matters as well; I figured it was a win-win. Sigh.
It’s not the zoom-in lag, or the glitchy page turning experience or even the random crashing that makes this app terrible, it’s this:
That blocky artifacting around the letters isn’t from my compression, it’s there’s. This isn’t some cheap scan I downloaded, this is the official magazine I paid money for. This crappy, badly compressed, headache-inducing view is what you get in the Retro Games app.
What. The. Hell.