Before the internet, kids would run to their newstands every month to grab their favorite comic books and video game magazines to see pages and pages of the newest video game news. Hoping to scoop their friends, they’d read through the whole thing on the way home and run to the phone or their neighbour’s house just to show off the newest Atari or Activision title. Those were the days, at least I think so, It’s all a bit hazy for me. But thanks to the internet many of us can re-live those fond memories. Super Flickr user Scrubbles has compiled a small, but hot, gallery of scanned vintage video game advertisements, dating back to 1982, actually featuring some ads I remember kicking around some of mine and my brother’s magazines, which we had lying all over the house.

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Are you part of a business and want to get a free subscription to Electronic Gaming Monthly and other magazines? Now you can through a limited offer from Mercury Magazines, a business to business free magazine fulfillment company. Unfortunately this offer is limited to the 50 states (sorry Canada!) and you must give a business name and your title. So Mr/Mrs. Director of Vandelay Industries, enjoy that free magazine subscription.

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Independent games mega-portal Game Tunnel has announced recently that they will be launching a print magazine, featuring independent games reviews, news, gossip, articles and developer interviews. Issue #1 appears to still be in pre-production, however a preview has been released by the tunnelers in PDF form, allowing site visitors to get a sneak peek into the forthcoming publication. No word on subscription prices or schedules have been released, but I’m sure more information will be forthcoming.

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