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Neat, I haven’t received one of these in the mail in a long while. First thought, rad paper. In terms of content, I need to read it again – it didn’t strike me as cohesive (or as compelling) as the new GamePro at first glance, though. I bought a sub, mainly to support some friends working on the magazine, and I have high hopes for its future.
I know magazines are a dying breed, but a world without EGM (er, sorry, Electronic Gaming Monthly) was a strange one. I’m glad it’s back.
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.