Retromags Presents August In History (Part 2)

**triverse** · August 13, 2009

1994: Whoop! Almost missed this one by a year or so, no biggie, we found it and are good to go. Not all things that happened in August through years are great, or fun to think about like when on the 1st when tragedy struck the

Norwich Central Library in the United Kingdom when it caught fire and destroyed most of it's historical records. We got Woodstock 94, er, um, nevermind, we also had the World Series cancelled due to a player strike, er, the good news is we have some great issues available here at Retromags:

Club Nintendo Vol.6 Issue 4 - August 1994 (GERMANY)

EGM Issue 061 August 1994

EGM2 Issue 002 August 1994

GamePro Issue 061 August 1994

Nintendo Power Issue 063 (Aug 1994)

Sega Visions Issue 20 - August/September 1994

1989: The final stop on our time trip this month before we present the oldest August magazine available here at Retromags. We all know that the Genesis turns 20 this Friday (the 14th) but did you know that Nasa launched

STS-28 Space Shuttle Columbia on a secret 5 day military mission earlier in August (isn't that against the charter of Nasa to be doing military activities?) and Voyager II waved to the planet Neptune and it's moon Triton (Sega makes note of Neptune for future system name while Ford makes note of Triton for name of a future motor they put in their popular F150 pick up trucks). And for the hippy in everyone, we had Woodstock 89 (were there one of these for every year or something?).

In gaming magazines we have slim pickings for August 1989 with only one issue released here on Retromags so far.

Atarian Video Game Magazine - August 1989

Nintendo Power Issue 007 (Jul/Aug 1989)

The oldest magazine we have available here at Retromags.com is:

Videogaming Illustrated Issue 01 August 1982

Videogaming Illustrated #1 was donated by s1500, originally not even a member here at Retromags, he is an active member on the Atari Age forums and has been welcomed to the Retromags community as a valued member with his releases of many other issues of the extremely rare Videogaming Illustrated.

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