Intelligent Gamer 2 - Jumping Flash! 2 [S1E7]

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Ty Schalter & Aidan Moher

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Ty Schalter (VICE, FiveThirtyEight) and Aidan Moher (WIRED, Vulture) review what rocked and what sucked about the classic video game magazines that inspired them to become professional journalists, authors, and critics—and what they can tell us about today's digital media and games.

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Intelligent Gamer 2 - Jumping Flash! 2 [S1E7]

FunFactor

1 hour 28 minutes

5 months ago

Intelligent Gamer 2 - Jumping Flash! 2 [S1E7]

ISSUE LINK: Intelligent Gamer No. 2, July 1996

A true trailblazer of a magazine, which Ty mistook at the time for a craven NEXT Generation ripoff. Instead, Ziff-Davis bought what might have been the world's first fully digital online games magazine and soon put its precocious editor at the head of a real, monthly, big-boy print equivalent.

Besides giving Aidan and Ty an excuse to riff on the benefits and drawbacks of physical magazines in the modern era, this issue's super deep previews and reviews give them plenty to chew on.

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Sources include the Internet Archive, Retromags.com, our original research, and our personal magazine collections.

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