deroberstein800

Any issues of Silicon Magazine. It was a small, free magazine distributed at places like FuncoLand and Game Exchange in the late 90s/early 00s. It was really high quality for what it was. There are a few scans of the magazine floating around the Internet but I suspect many issues of Silicon Magazine are lost media since I doubt very many people kept a 15-20 page free magazine around for 20ish years.

Thanks for the replies. You guys may be right about it being a supplement that was lost. I want to say I'm 90% certain the gift guide was bound inside the magazine itself (I remember the copy of the magazine I had being surprisingly thick for XG which always seemed to be on the thin side) but I can't rule out that I'm remembering things incorrectly. The copy I bought on ebay shows no indication anywhere the holiday gift guide ever even existed so it being a supplement that came bagged with it but separate is probable. Fortunately, no. I think I'm mostly just disturbed by the possibility that something I thought I remembered concretely was actually a false memory the whole time.

Hey, all. This is a rather obscure question, but maybe someone here has an answer. I recently bought Expert Gamer #54, Dec. 1998 (featuring OoT on the cover), from eBay hoping to relive some nostalgia for years gone by. Everything is great, except one relatively minor detail. I swore XG #54 had a huge, multipage holiday gift guide, featuring lots of videogame related toys and action figures, at the back and I don't think my memory is faulty because I have looked at that particular magazine for years. However, the copy I received in the mail didn't have the gift guide. It leaves me perplexed; I'm positive it wasn't a subscriber exclusive because the copy I had back in the day was bought off a newsstand -- unless there was a mix up and a subscriber version wound up at the store I bought it from back in 1998. Anyway, it's not really a big deal, I suppose, but the mystery has been nagging at me. If anyone can shed light on it, I'd appreciate it.