Retromags Presents June In Review

[triverse]

As usual, Retromags is proud to present the month of June in review. Got any comments or stories you would like to share connected to anything presented here then please go ahead and have fun with it. If you have any suggestions for future months you can message triverse with them and we may use them in a future update.

June, 1999 in Review:

The last year of the 20th Century, the middle month, June 1999. For some it was the first full month out of highschool, for others as you are about to find out it was possibly diferent, if only slightly than your normal day. While we will focus on games and the magazines that covered them, you can follow the other events that happened in June in this thread.

Some highlights include the first Austin Powers movie, The Spy Who Shagged Me released this month, Deforest Kelly, sadly, left us this month. It is a month in 1999 filled with rollercoaster like events, so please, sit back and join us as we venture back in time to June 1999.

Deforest Kelly, best known as Dr. Bones on the original Star Trek series and in many movies, passed away on June 11th 1999 at the age of 79. George W. Bush announces his entention to run for the Republican nomination for the President of the United States, the Dallas Stars defeated the Buffalo Sabres in triple overtime to win game #6 of the Stanley Cup Finals earning the Dallas Stars their first Stanley Cup.

Apple releases a little thing known as the iBook on the world.

On the Nintendo brand side of gaming we received Ken Griffey Jr's Slugfest, WWF Attitude and Disney's Tarzan all three on the Gameboy Color. The regular old black and white Gameboy wasn't forgotten yet as it got R-Type DX, Pokemon Pinball and Conker's Pocket Tales. It didn't take a rocket scientist to realize though that the Nintendo 64 was the main focus of Nintendo by now, not the Gameboy line. N64 releases included Shadowgate 64 (check out the original here), Quake II and Command and Conquer.

Sega was pretty quiet with game releases around this time as they were gearing up for the launch of the Dreamcast later in the year. Sony wasn't putting up much of a fight at this point with the PSOne with only one US released game this month, Bugs BUnny: Lost in Time, while Japan got 6 releases (including Ape Escape, Jersey Devil and Medievil) and the UK got 3 releases (Blaze and Blade, AFL '99 and Evil Zone).

In magazines, well that is a slightly different story, Retromags only has one June 1999 issue available, EGM #119.

EGM Issue 119

Next up on the timeline hopskotch game we have going here is June 1994...hold on because here we go!

Seems June is the month for extreme highs (The Lion King being released in theaters) and extreme lows (a shocking unsolved murder). Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside the Simpson home in Los Angeles, California, OJ Simpson is acquitted of the killings but is found liable in a civil suit later.

The New York Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks at Madison Square Gardens on June 14 in game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, giving the New York Rangers their first Stanley Cup Championship in the 54 years. With that win, the curse of 1940 was broken.

The International Olympic Committe celebrated turning 100 on June 23rd.

Movies of interest released this month include Speed and The Lion King.

Gameboy players were surely happy to get Donkey Kong (which was wonderful on the Super Gameboy attachment), SNES gamers got to enjoy Final Fight Guy (some say it should Capcom should have made FF two player with all of the characters from the start, others may claim this is the game series that started Capcom on the road of incremental updates that flourished with Street Fighter II). Sega finally landed a game quite similar to Zelda for Genesis in Crusader of Centy (but they didn't release it they let Atlus have the honors while they released Beyond Oasis although not this month).

In magazines, we have EGM Issue 059, GamePro Issue 059 and Nintendo Power Issue 061 available.

EGM Issue 059

GamePro Issue 059

Nintendo Power Issue 061

Maybe June 1989 is a better year all around for everyone...

The NES was dominating in June 1989 with 15+ games released, that is almost 4 games a week at about $50 each for a total of $750+ if you bought them all new at retail! We got greats like the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game, California Games, Adventures of Bayou Billy and Mega Man 2 while the Gameboy got that weird falling block game from Russian, Tetris (that will never catch on is what I remember thinking back then, I guess I was wrong on that one, chalk it up to being mad that I didn't have a Gameboy).

Sega released the arcade version of Golden Axe and Bullfrog Productions (prior to the Electronic Arts purchase of their company and souls of employees) released Populous to the computer gaming world.

Dead Poets Society, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Ghostbusters II, Batman, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and The Karate Kid, Part III all hit theaters within a 28 day period.

How many people remember when the Skydome (now known as Rogers Centre) opened on June 3rd in Toronto.

On newstands it is possible you could have seen these issues (you may even have bought one or two, unless you were a NES completist gamer then you were probably broke):

Atarian Video Game Magazine

Nintendo Power Issue 006

Video Games and Computer Entertainment

[KevInCal]

Nice reminiscing! I seriously miss the 80's and 90's...

[Mister Zero]

Yeah.. there will never be days like those again!

[triverse]

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[Gnash]

I remeber reading those and dreaming of playing those games.