GamePro

Not sure why it was cheap back then in the holidays.

So maybe that's why I was a huge I was huge into collecting gaming magazines, EGM, Game Informer, Game Pro, PSM, Nintendo Power.

And I definitely went after the magazines with demo discs, official PlayStation magazine, official Xbox magazine.

Amen, brother.

EGM was pretty good.

GamePro was pretty good.

GamePro got

a lot of good exclusives.

That's what was good

And not every console got the same port.

I was first introduced to the game through a full summary in the latest issue of GamePro that heavily featured Chun-Li on the cover.

Before even owning the game, I had acquired the official GamePro strategy guide with Blanka prominently in his shock stance alongside E-Honda, Galen, and Bison, behind him a half of a Chun-Li off to the side.

The magazine showed these big flashy and colorful character sprites, bodies engulfed in fire, green monsters engulfed in electric shocks, big blue fireballs, and it looked like the characters were beating the shit out of each other amidst some of the most gorgeous backdrops I had ever seen at the time.

I remember going on road trips with those magazines and reading them like they were comics or graphic novels.

It must have been...

It was a little too late for GamePro, I believe.

No, maybe it was...

It had to have been a GamePro, actually.

I don't know why.

I just assumed GamePro was way earlier, but I definitely remember reading GamePro.

Maybe they were around.

I definitely remember reading GamePro when I was working at the car dealership and shit.

Wasn't good.

Well, I mean, that was I remember reading in GamePro or I think EGM had a feature and it was about games that never got released.

And it was the graphics were like, have you seen this game? And it was like Sonic Extreme and Star Fox 2 on like milk cartons.

And they were talking about it.

So, thank you, Barry.

And as I keep asking everybody, what got you into the Resident Evil series?

So, as a kid, you know, with an N64 and not a PlayStation, I... first saw Resident Evil in magazines like EGM, GamePro, stuff like that.

But I had a friend of mine in high school.

[laughs]

You'll read a, you'll read a Game Pro from 1998.

That's not news.

Yeah.

Electronic Gaming Monthly, the big American monthly, said the graphics were excellent, but poor control and too few moves crippled it.

GamePro, another American magazine, called the colours dark and bland and the controls weak and choppy.

Trade-offs, plainly.

The Amiga looks the most like the screenshots.

[footsteps thudding] Overall, the game received pretty good reviews from critics and the public.

Many reviews, like one from GamePro, read, quote, "A masterful example of game design," while Game Informer said, "Brilliant and up to par with Miyamoto's best." So I'd never played this game before.

My only experience with any Luigi's Mansion games before this was Dark Moon, which is the sequel to this, and it was on 3DS.

I've played that five, six, seven times through.