We are launching Retro Gaming Magazine, again, this time with a new staff and better focus on what gamers want.  We have been using social media, forums and other connections with gamers to get a better feel for what they would like to see in the magazine.  Why?  Because we feel that the current magazines that cater to retro fans simply don’t have a finger on the pulse of classic gamers.  That is a big problem in our eyes.

Retro cannot be covered the same way that current generation gaming is, that is a mistake the current crop of publications fall into.  There is a whole new outlook available in the retro scene that is simply not being taken by other magazines and websites.  That is something we plan on doing differently.

Focusing on the greatest asset we have when covering retro is our main intent with how we treat the games and the articles we cover them in.  That asset is hindsight.  We don’t have to wonder if Bubsy was going to burn the house that Mario built down or steal Sonic’s sneakers, we know beyond the first game, that furball was bald and declawed.  We don’t have to ponder the possibilities of yet another Street Fighter II title and what system it would hit, we already know (just about all of them that could handle it).

Articles such as “What the Hell Happened?” will delve into the darker side of gaming whether it be a company, console line or game, if it was promising at one point then fell apart, it is a contender.  We will take definitive stands with gaming choices when comparing multiple platforms against each other, as we are doing in the first issue in a big way where we settle the score between SNES and Sega Genesis games.  Home coders, indie programmers, homebrewers, whatever you want to call the small teams (usually one person) that are creating new games for old, dead, systems, we will be looking your way A LOT in Retro Gaming Magazine because we feel a system is only dead when no one games on it anymore.

We also will be making use of the most powerful tool available, the Internet to reach out to our fans and the retro gaming community to bring a better voice to the magazine and this site.  We are not in this alone, we are all in this together.  Gamers.

Carl Williams

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