Games (tm) Magazine Disses Gp32

[DaveC]

I was glancing through the retro section of the Games (tm) magazine. Someone enquired in the letters section as to why the GP32 never gets mentioned for emulation. They replied to the effect that thay had a GP32 for along time but didn't write about it because they "don't have the space for it" in their mag. And that they will do an article on "other future handhelds that have similar features" Why other future handhelds? Is the GP32 not 1337 enough for their rag?

So even though they have 3 pages to dedicate to a single Speccy game, there is no space for the GP32? Bullshit! Also they will completely pass over the GP32 and wait until some other handheld with "similar features" is released before they do an article? Like what the Zodiac? GBA? What do they have against the GP32?

 

[Enslaved]

They are lazy.

 

[worldwriter]

Doesn't sound like a magazine that should be writing about handhelds... period

 

[DaveC]

They talk alot about retro and even a bit on emulation. It seems odd that they turn their noses up at a system that runs all of those old games that they talk about. The GP32 should be a favorite, Kind of weird.

 

[diablo2]

i don't think that they were dissing it on purpose
the new generation of handhelds is hear

the gp32 has a very small following
i'm glad to be a part of it though

 

[Maks]

Well, they did write a tiny little thing on it on like the very back page of the UK edition with r-type final on the front cover but personally i think that magazine went down hill from issue three in australia, it got lazy and i stopped buying it after ten or eleven issues never to buy it again. it started off the best magon the shelf now it's only good.

 

[catmince]

I did buy the Aussie ed twice but as people have said above it went downhill.

 

[Alpha2]

Sounds like laziness to me. HARD CORE laziness. They obviously dont have the ability to check for the occasional updates in emmulators or spend money on SMCs to put games on.

 

[Dairyman]

Thats not cool. I always thought the GP was some lame handheld until I finally convinced myself to get one. Now I love it! You can look at this from two angles, 1.) They won't do a article about the GP until the handhelds of today catch up with it (simiply because there is nothing to compare the GP to, it is lightyears ahead of the GBA,GBASP, and I even think the DS. Maybe not the PSP though.). 2.) They are F***ing Douchbags who are to lazy to write a article or something on the GP!
Whew! That felt good! MY TWO CENTS! <_<

 

[aapje89]

Lazy, but I never read anywhere of the gp32 in the Netherlands.
I have a gp32 ,but if I hadnt seen a advertation on internet I wouldn't have had a gp32

 

[DaveC]

i don't think that they were dissing it on purpose
the new generation of handhelds is hear

the gp32 has a very small following
i'm glad to be a part of it though

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Next generation is here? Yes like the DS? It really doesn't offer anything more than the GP32 has now for emulation, except for a smaller screen and lower resolution. So that is no excuse. They are just lame.

 

[Tobriand]

Heh. I can kind of understand where they're coming from - it is a console that's 3 years old now, after all, and whilst it deserves all the press it can get, I doubt any magazine writers/editors see it seriously competing with any of the new big boys.

Problem is they're looking at it in the wrong way. They see it as a comparatively weak 3-year old console. We see it as the last bastion of emulation in a sea of comercialised, DRMed, and generally closed, darkness.

The difference between the two is obvious - in the first, the GP32 has no future, doesn't need to be written about (after all, I'll bet they're stopping mentioning the GBA these days, and the GP32 predates that). There will be another console that does exactly what it does sometime soon, and doesn't cost the earth (yeah right) - and isn't 3 years old.

In the second, it cannot be mentioned enough, despite being an old timer, since there's nothing like it around at the moment, and none of the newer competitors look like they're going to be providing anything like the scope for amateur development as the GP32 has done. And those that do (the Via or that other one Obo, is it?) will cost £500 - whch doesn't count.

 

[grooveholmes]

Lazy, but I never read anywhere of the gp32 in the Netherlands.
I have a gp32 ,but if I hadnt seen a advertation on internet I wouldn't have had a gp32

same for me.
i remember seeing the ad on lik-sang and become fascinated about it. and my 6 months of hard challange to make it delivered to my country.

 

[LeeT]

The editor of the 'retro' section in Games(tm) visits quite a few retro forums, so i shall mention this to him, and ask him for an offical explanation...

 

[Winterkid]

Real Gamers don't read that mag honestly. Most of my friends and fellow gamers read Computer Gaming World, PC Gamer or a dedicated mag like XBox magazine or whatever.

 

[Mark]

Real Gamers don't read that mag honestly. Most of my friends and fellow gamers read Computer Gaming World, PC Gamer or a dedicated mag like XBox magazine or whatever.

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What are you talking about? Xbox Magazine is not what 'real' gamers read-it's biased as hell. And didn't they give Blinx 9.4 or something?

Edge and GamesTM are seen to be the best magazines for 'real' gamers. Although I hear that they have started to go downhill fast, but still.

 

[thingley]

Games TM has covered the GP32 community better than any other mainstream mag.

It gave the console a favourable review when it looked like it might be released in the UK - it then went on to ask what had happened to it when the release never happened. The comments made by one writer in response to a readers letter hardly amount to a magazine 'dissing' our favourite toy.

I think the writer was just pointing to the possibilty of a future article rounding up all of the handhelds that are capable of emulation once we know more about them.

Thats fair enough isn't it? - If you want to write an article comparing handhelds for emulation and you know that several are due for immanent release does it not make sense to wait?

:rolleyes:

 

[Yuglooc]

Sweden's Magazine M3 Had it covered, Gave it 8\10, and their really hard on giving good grades, so tat kinda awsome, i think they gave GBA 4 and GBASP a 7

 

[Hungry4War]

I bought that magazine with that subject in about the GP32, I won't buy it again! :angry:

 

[toxibunny]

I first found about the GP32 in FHM magazine...