I was an admin for a major Mario fangame website for a couple years, so I think I just saved everything as a matter of habit

do NOT mess with Darth Crypt

Finding all sorts of shit on my old hard drive from 20 years ago

You could gift 400 subs for that price, which TBH is probably the direction they would like the economy to go

The second one, I think. The crowd that wants to play 200-hour pen-and-paper-style RPGs is still there, but it became such a smaller part of "computer games" that it makes sense if Ultima doesn't have a huge footprint in PC gaming culture now

Yes! It started as a UK mag but came to the US after the first year or two. Very few issues were scanned until we started working on it

I think the real sign for me is that Strategy Plus magazine (which included tabletop wargaming) expanded into Computer Games Strategy Plus, then eventually just became Computer Games. A gradual, firm transition over like six years

Lord Mitchish

Something that's been interesting about looking at old PC mags is how much of the audience was just there for military sims and crufty RPGs. And then how dramatically the audience shifted once you got into the post-Doom era

Gillberg was at Summer CES 99

It's the American NTSC version running on a Sega CD, at a booth labeled "Sega CD." It's for Sega CD

"Food is edible, but"

Currently scrubbing through a 30-year-old corporate sizzle reel that feels like it was made by a sentient pile of cocaine

Huge

A female Eastern Bluebird that was hunting in the grasses along the nature trail.