New Edge Retro 3 out

weekendgamer · December 3, 2003

Hi,

I have just picked up the third Edge Retro edition. It has a yeloow cover and is the standard £5 charge.

On first inspection it is a collection of the retro specials from the mag,

Vectrex, C64, Famicom,Amiga,PC Engine, neoGeo,Megadrive,SNES,Saturn. It also has a price guide with mention of Droos cornering of the megajet market with the syndicate from the Edge forum.

Jim Miles · December 3, 2003

Hooray! I'll look out for it in town today. I really like these Edge Retro Special Editions.

Mr Monday · December 3, 2003

Hi,
I have just picked up the third Edge Retro edition. It has a yeloow cover and is the standard £5 charge.

On first inspection it is a collection of the retro specials from the mag,

Vectrex, C64, Famicom,Amiga,PC Engine, neoGeo,Megadrive,SNES,Saturn. It also has a price guide with mention of Droos cornering of the megajet market with the syndicate from the Edge forum.

It mentions the MegaJet bulk buy . I started that, I did. But Droo did all the hard work.

I suppose I'll have to buy it now!

nohsa · December 3, 2003

Damn, the newsagents had closed already. Hopefully they have it in stock already. This wasn't advertised for in EDGE so far, was it?

The 2 other issues so far have been a good read but too many reprints.

Mr Do 71 · December 3, 2003

And I bought one of those MegaJets

masterhand · December 3, 2003

All that's new is an Amiga and NES collectors feature and added missing pictures to the previous features. Also all the prices seem to be updated and are more realistic to current market prices. Oh, and a hardware price guide in the back.

Worth a fiver to a regular Edge reader? No, just like the last Retro Special.

I really want that Sonic CD clock!!!

Molloy · December 3, 2003

Ah shite. I thought this was going to be a proper Retro magazine. Reprinting a load of content from the last 12 months is just stupid.

masterhand · December 3, 2003

Reprinting a load of content from the last 12 months is just stupid.

and cheap.

divine visitor · December 3, 2003

Aw man, I was looking forward to the NES collectors feature in Edge. I don't wanna spend another £5 just for that.

SeanR · December 3, 2003

I'm gonna buy a few then punt them out on ebay

Broker · December 4, 2003

are they the exact same articles from the issues?

Badger · December 4, 2003

Means I can buy this special and not worry about buying Edge....hoorah for shonky reprint cash-ins.

alexhighnumber · December 4, 2003

And I bought one of those MegaJets

See now if someone had of told me there'd one day be an Edge article about it I wouldn't have passed up on the opportunity!

(and just out of interest what was the final end cost per unit?)

Mr Monday · December 4, 2003

And I bought one of those MegaJets

See now if someone had of told me there'd one day be an Edge article about it I wouldn't have passed up on the opportunity!

(and just out of interest what was the final end cost per unit?)

I think it was £46. A bit of a bargain.

Droo · December 4, 2003

lol, the megajets are mentioned in the magazine?

D

Valiant · December 4, 2003

All that's new is an Amiga and NES collectors feature...

Fuck! I was waiting on the Amiga one with baited breath.

Jim Miles · December 4, 2003

Well frankly even if it's mostly reprinted material I still think it's worth £5. Having certain things collected is helpful to avoid searching for issue 1xx, and I like the excuse to read such articles again.

eves pudding · December 4, 2003

The colour is nice - beautiful shade of yellow (canary yellow I think)

danryu · December 4, 2003

http://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=23632&st=20

Where a (extremely ignorant or hopefully kidding) moderator of this very forum insults Gary Lucken in a blatent and unfunny way to his face, and I try to stay positive about the magazine :lol:

toonfool · December 4, 2003

If Vlad Tepes III is reading this:

I'll get the Retro and I have the Xbox special. Hopefully they'll find their way to you before Christmas.

alexhighnumber · December 5, 2003

Where a (extremely ignorant or hopefully kidding) moderator

Yes he was kidding, sometimes it's too tempting when people walk into things

Doppleganger · December 19, 2003

So what exactly does the mag say about the Megajet and the co-buy?

Badger · December 19, 2003

Just a one line reference to it in the megaet box of the price guide at the back...

Form memory

Putting aside the infamous mass buy out of a Japanese ariline by Edge forumites, the prices of the MegaJet tend ot remain high...

or sumfing

SeanR · December 19, 2003

http://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=23632&st=20
Where a (extremely ignorant or hopefully kidding) moderator of this very forum insults Gary Lucken in a blatent and unfunny way to his face, and I try to stay positive about the magazine

mummy mummy the nasty man said bad things!

Jonathan · December 20, 2003

Well it's a pleasant shade of yellow and it was good to see the C64 in there, but deeply depressing to see no Spectrum or Amstrad content. For a fiver I'd have expected in-depth coverage of those two formats, particularly the Spectrum as it was a little bigger than the C64 in the UK.

Still, if the rumours are right there could be better news ahead for retro enthusiasts next year with the launch of a new publication. No longer will we have to put up with this nonsense! It's time we celebrated all formats rather than promoting a favoured few and dismissing the rest in the way that Edge seems to do.

michael · December 20, 2003

hmmm... i liked it - nice to have all the little specials combined into one thing, plus it goes well with the other two.

now, what's all this about a regular retro thing? spill, dammit!

Rex Grossman · December 20, 2003

http://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=23632&st=20
Where a (extremely ignorant or hopefully kidding) moderator of this very forum insults Gary Lucken in a blatent and unfunny way to his face, and I try to stay positive about the magazine

mummy mummy the nasty man said bad things!

I'm just pleased to learn that saying something on an internet forum means saying something to someone's face.

HoneyMonster · December 21, 2003

The Atari 2600 should have been covered. I have a healthy collection of rare carts, some of which are worth $200 - $300.

Jonathan · January 10, 2004

Okay, I s'pose I'd better spill the beans...

http://www.livepublishing.co.uk/content/retro.shtml

This looks more like my kind of retro publication - mostly nostalgia but with news of what's CURRENTLY going on in the retro scene, and all in a regular quarterly publication covering a WIDE range of formats.

masterhand · January 10, 2004

That looks good, hopefully I'll be able to get a copy from WHSmiths.

New Edge Retro 3 out

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