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Back in the retro age, a subscription to a video game magazine was about as essential to the gaming experience as the console and controllers. With no high-quality websites and very little television presence, the only way to get the dirt on what was coming up was to either shell out for that subscription or pay the issue-to-issue bonus at the newsstand – or, if that was still too much, try to find a subscribing friend who wouldn't give you too much grief.

Not that this was ever a problem for me.

Over the years, I managed to accrue a decent collection of video game magazines – most from subscriptions, but many from one-off purchases at rest stop convenience stores and airport bookstores. I had enough that, for a while, my bedroom featured a bookshelf dedicated to magazine holders.

Of course, most people (let alone most children) wouldn't bother keeping an archive of magazines that are, essentially, buyer