PC Gamer Issue 009 (February 1995)

I miss when pcgamer was this good.

On 9/14/2019 at 9:39 PM, Lysandus said:

I miss when pcgamer was this good.

Same. I've been a subscriber for a decade (starting in '97) and it was such a depressing downward spiral. 

Blame Future.  The USA version of PC Gamer as published by Imagine and its predecessors (Game Player's PC Strategy Guide, Game Player's PC Entertainment) were all excellent.  Then, in 2002, Future bought out Imagine (Future being the company that published PC Gamer in the UK.)  The UK mag was never as good, so this didn't promise good things to come, but for a while at least, the USA version retained it's own separate identity.  Eventually, though, the UK side of Future took more and more control until the mag became what it is today -  a 1:1 copy of the UK mag.

So if you want good issues of PC Gamer, just make sure they were published by Imagine.  And don't forget about its precursor mags, either.

thanks

This was the first issue of a decade long subscription for me. Sadly, by 2000 or so, I had really lost interest in the magazine. I still go back and read the old ones quite often.