GameSpite Quarterly 2 Takes On 'The Greatest Games Of All Time'
The second issue of GameSpite Quarterly 2, the self-published retro gaming magazine headed by 1UP's Jeremy Parish, is now available for purchase. While the last issue centered around the Game Boy's 20th anniversary, this release collects essays on the 40 titles that GameSpite's forumers voted as the "Greatest Games of All Time" (48 titles in the Deluxe Edition).
Parish admits that the selection of games, which includes classics like X-Com: UFO Defense and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, is "in no way an objective, definitive, or even necessarily reasonable list," pointing out that the forum's votes skewed toward SNES releases.
Still, if you like reading printed retrospectives of your favorite games -- with contributions from developers like Konami's Tomm Hulett and Atlus's Nich Maragos, along with GameSpite's team of writers -- you will enrich your life with this "new games journalicious" issue.
GameSpite Quarterly 2 is available in paperback and hardcover (with 37 extra pages of content). If this is your first time purchasing from Blurb, make sure to type in coupon code "hpfreeshipping" with 2-day shipping to receive free shipping (it's very expensive otherwise).
Articles from the issue will begin appearing online within the next few days. You can read the full table of contents here.
Comments
Well, Earthbound is on there so it's at least partially correct.
Posted by: P.F. | August 17, 2009 7:31 PM
Thanks for the (very kind) plug!
Posted by: parish | August 17, 2009 7:55 PM
One can very easily tell the approximate ages of the editors by the top five games. Where's friggin' PAC-MAN?
Posted by: Keith Burgun | August 17, 2009 8:51 PM
Why should we bother.
Any mature game player knows that it is impossible to chose one great game over the other. Unless you only know about the existence of 20 or 30 games in total, in which the selection becomes easier.
Posted by: dieubussy | August 18, 2009 2:10 AM