Official Feedback Issue 100 + Issue 1

[jdanddiet]

Question : Which earns the publishers of RG the most? A mag off the shelf or a subscription? Yes a subscription guarantees a purchase for 12 months , but do they take aq hit with the profit?

guaranteed sale is worth much more, I'm sure.

[CraigGrannell]

Also, distribution costs money and so a big chunk of your fiver doesn't go back to Imagine when you buy from a shop. Subs are the life-blood of any magazine.

[PacSuit]

After Countless searching, I've managed find a copy.

[r0jaws]

Why oh why dont people then subscribe ? Same price for me, saves you money, always get it earlier etc.

On the downside, you're subject to the whims of the postman. I've received subscription copies of magazines with a huge crease down the middle, a broken spine and, in one case, ripped pages. I buy it from WH Smith for the simple reason that I can check the magazine's condition before I buy it.

What is your postman doing? Have you slighted him in some way that he uses your subscriptions to line the saddle of his bike?

[kiwimike]

Why oh why dont people then subscribe ? Same price for me, saves you money, always get it earlier etc.

On the downside, you're subject to the whims of the postman. I've received subscription copies of magazines with a huge crease down the middle, a broken spine and, in one case, ripped pages. I buy it from WH Smith for the simple reason that I can check the magazine's condition before I buy it.

What is your postman doing? Have you slighted him in some way that he uses your subscriptions to line the saddle of his bike?

I don't subscribe, but I've ordered several issues I REALLY wanted straight away, as well as some of the Bookzines (RG and Sci fi now). Each time, they have arrived fast (And thats impressive, UK to NZ) and in absolute top quality. This issue 100 for example, and the Sci fi top movies/tv bookzine are the latest two I've bought were both packed well in bubble wrapped envelopes.

[martyg]

What is your postman doing? Have you slighted him in some way that he uses your subscriptions to line the saddle of his bike?

I think that's a British thing? Postmen here are usually on foot or have one of those glorified jeep-vans.

And what usually destroys my oversized mail is them trying to crame it in the tiny mail cuby that we have in this apartment for mail.

[romeoteknik]

Is the issue 1 reprint supposed to look "old"? Mine has white spots along the edges.

[markopoloman]

Yes.

[resident paul]

I had the magazine for nearly 2 weeks & haven't got round to opened it up & read!

[Sel Feena]

Picked the issue up on Friday, congrats on reaching 100 issues. Liked the GTA feature; would have been ace to be able to inflict some combine harvester mayhem!

[delbert_trout]

Picked mine up in Smiths the other day - certainly wasn't expecting issue 1 to be bundled in with it - was over the moon with that! Bloody fantastic I didn't start buying the mag until a couple of years back so it's great to see just how far the mag has come in these 100 issues. Really nice thought to include it.

Loving the Speccy, Sonic, Tetris and Ralph Baer articles in the main issue - Back to the 80s and 90s is also brilliant as always.

Cheers, and congrats on 100 issues!

[Antiriad2097]

Is the issue 1 reprint supposed to look "old"? Mine has white spots along the edges.

Its not just the reprint. The original release was printed like that, so its not something added for this reissue.

[Shinobi]

Congratulations on 100 issue's I've still yet to read mine, for some reason a lot of the articles just don't interest me... I was disapointed you never had the unconverted or the making of X arcade machine

[Space Holiday]

In issue 1 you have a best games of all time list... you should do something like this again in a later issue but have the readers vote for their favourite games of all time! I remember seeing this in an old Nintendo Magazine back when they were published by Emap.

We did that already, there was lots of voting and comments on the forum for it.

Well let's do it again

[Rory Milne]

I just finished reading issue 100 and 101 dropped through the letterbox! Has it really been a month? At any rate, 100 easily met my admittedly sky-high expectations, so I thought some feedback, however late, was in order.

I appreciated all the nice little touches, the loading lines on the front of the bag; the BASIC print out on the back cover; the “birthday card” crammed full of developers best wishes; the type-in game; the developer input in the Retrorevivals, Classic Game, the 100 moments and Tricks of the Trade pieces.

The main features really worked for me too. The Andrew Braybrook interview was a timely coup, and the other spreads – Tetris, Ralph Baer, ZX Spectrum, Grand Theft Auto, Videogames Crash, Rob Hubbard, Sonic – saw each respective writer produce something very special.

I think what impressed me most, though, was the sense that the magazine is constantly evolving and expanding its remit, rather than going stale, or winding down, or contracting in any way.

All of which makes it easy to look forward to the next 100 issues without the slightest hint of wishful thinking.