Mean Machines

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Now joining me in the commentary box, from Mean Machines and Computer and Video Games magazine, is world famous computing celebrity Julian "Jazza" Rignall.

Julian, welcome to GamesMaster.

Hello.

There was one outlier, 'cause CVG, 91 out of 100 for the Mega Drive.

Uh, EGM, 31 out of 40, which is 80 to 90%.

Mean Machines, 43%.

Oof.

I mean, here, like, there was so many print magazines, like, from the UK and whatnot that were, like, even rich.

Like, the Mean Machines were, you know.

So we found a lot of Master System reviews and such here kind of easily.

Also, about what time would you say it was kind of tapering off in the U.S. to where you really couldn't get new games? Like, I know that there were some mail order only games released at the very end.

Uh, I think a lot of those things turned out to be scams, and you wouldn't get the entire, the entire model.

But anyway, I picked up that magazine and a copy of Mean Machines.

So yeah, started reading that, which was edited by Julian Rignall, who is still active in games media, now lives in the United States.

I should get him on the show.

And, uh, yeah, this publisher said, "This is how much it costs to launch a games magazine.

I think you should, um, write-- Rather than doing that, why don't you write a series of articles for Edge Magazine about game collecting?" And that's what I did, so that's how I became a freelance writer.

So yeah, uh, Mean Machines and Edge were the magazines that I read.

I did also pick up, uh, was it PSX Magazine or a PlayStation magazine, um, wh-when I first got back into games.