Mega Action Issue #1 - June 1993 | CGQ

[@CGQuarterly]

If you'd like to follow along at home, you can download a PDF of the magazine here: segaretro.org/File:MegaAction_UK_01.pdf Then you'll see which pages I skipped!

[@TheMiKeYM1KE]

Classic Gaming Quarterly I would love to see you do an updated Streets Of Rage Video since the new game is dropping at the end of this month

[@queentribble2019]

Dude you make some of the best stoner videos in a Bob Ross kind of way.

[@grungyperry7530]

This made me chuckle!

[@jessehilton1337]

So. True.

[@jello__0113]

my life the last few weeks has been getting stoned and watching retro game vids lol, lockdowns not so bad

[@j0nnyism]

I’m going to have to try this stoned now thanks to ur comment!

[@akalyx]

so. much. yes. also --life-changing to fall asleep to (especially if you're an insomniac like me) i cycle between falling asleep to jeremy parish, kim justice, and CGQ

[@AmariLynn8]

Take me back to June 93 classic gaming quarterly please get me out of 2020 🤢🤒😷

[@antonbots9794]

Your channel is the best retro games channel out there. None of the self righteousness and shady sponsorship deals of the other KZbin retro channels... Pure content , I got to know new things...Kudos to you!

[@teen_laqueefa]

Game Sack is worth a watch

[@Nicho2681]

This just unlocked a long forgotten memory of really happy times. Thank you so much.

[@darrenmckeown990]

Thanks for featuring my magazine Chris, great video as usual. Sending much love from Ossett, England hope your holding up well in these dark times

[@NinjaDeathtrap]

CGQ deserve alot more patreons! He has only one tier: 1 dollar. So come on people! The value you get out of this Chanel is much more than that!

[@TechRyze]

Gunstar Heroes and Rocket Knight are more closely related than you'd expect. Treasure was founded by ex-Konami developers.

[@royston0157]

Awesome content enjoyed watching this one. Recently rekindled my love for the mega drive & great footage of some games in the magazine. Thanks & stay safe

[@murphyebass7837]

It would have only been 99p for the first issue. Happened regularly with magazines here in Ireland and the UK. The next issue was most likely 4 times that.

[@danielshimoda9246]

I hope you and your family are doing well during these difficult times. I wish you the best!

[@briannorthFW]

Thanks Chris, this are my absolute favorite videos that you do! They are like a times capsule from era gone by!

[@acecarrera1]

"No, Mr. Pond, I expect you to die." -Auric Goldfisher

[@preezy85]

A great video to sit and chill with whilst on lockdown, thanks dude!

[@hybridplc]

On page 11 (@ 15:40) the comic strip advert was done by Charlie Brooker of Black Mirror fame (plus loads of other stuff 😁)

[@epicfirsts888]

Excellent series of looking at comp magazines. Pls make more. your good!

[@williamrodabaugh4315]

I've checked out your videos a while ago, but I'm surprised I never subscribed. So, I ended up losing track and haven't seen your most recent videos. So, I fixed that by subscribing and I'll veg out on all that I missed. Your content is great, so I know I'll love all of it.

[@williamrodabaugh4315]

Also, the Awesome Possum reference was gold.

[@lordsosa9383]

@@williamrodabaugh4315 bring it on punk

[@stgenerations]

Fine work and the amount of games you fired up for footage is impressive. You must have spent a good 2 weeks getting this together and it was fun for us the viewer.

[@homejonny9326]

Thank you! I just love reading magazines episodes!

[@dumpnchase]

I really enjoyed this. Well done! Thanks for doing this.

[@yeahyukerson4511]

thank you for these kinds of videos. i love looking through old magazines.

[@luenaiya]

Thanks for reviewing this! Brings back a lot of memories for me

[@koobert]

I get genuinely annoyed thinking about stuff like the activator and power glove. They barely worked and didn’t even have software that used them in a functional manner. At least the super scope and menacer worked with their pack in games and a couple of other titles.

[@nicklong27]

I'm 40 years old from the UK and I had this magazine. I recognised the cover as soon as I saw it. As for those review scores... Yeh that was a wierd thing with mags back in the 90's, good games generally scored 85+, Half decent games were 75+ anything under that was mediocre. Strange way to use the numbers.

[@j0nnyism]

I think that if the review Score was to low they don’t get review copies and have to buy the game. Pretty idiotic

[@jasonbrown467]

i have stacks of old video game mags and misc gaming brochures etc etc, but the oldest i have is from 99. most of them are from 2001-2005. i have thought about creating some yt videos just flipping the pages, maybe one of these days i will do it

[@1upGamingandArcade]

these are really cool vids. I love the flash back. well done.

[@fulcrum2638]

for sure . agreed.

[@jakdex2210]

Amazing show like always Chris, the Humans game is a fun situation, the original is a Amiga game and Mega Action had to import the Genesis version, one would think that an Amiga game would be a no brainier for a PAL release.

[@janocronismo]

Now that you are reading/reviewing international gaming magazines, I'll do my best to send you some mexican 90s videogame magazines. I hope I can do it soon... Thanks again for creating fantastic content for us. Stay safe and healthy!

[@CGQuarterly]

Thanks! That would be amazing, and I would be happy to pay for them!

[@MaidenHell1977]

That narrator for the Game Breaker video sounds exactly like Wolfman Jack.

[@wiibrockster]

This was pretty interesting! Hearing an American say "Mega Drive" instead of "Genisis" was pretty entertaining!

[@furkansamed8118]

Its about color. Mega drive more like bue and black colors which fit sonic. Genesis is red. In genesis in mind knucles must be the mascot. Also mega drive used on japan too.

[@teen_laqueefa]

Well us Merricans got introduced to it as the Sega Genesis, Sonic was the pack in game and and I got it the same Christmas as the SNES since my brother and I shared and I couldn't tell you how spoiled I was now looking back

[@Ralph_Sandwich]

Another great episode CGQ. I just finished watching the whole thing. I'm always down for CGQ "let's reads". I'm looking forward to the next one! PSM is my favorite mag from the past. I had a subscription from 97-2000. Unfortunately I don't have any of my old copies or else I'd send them your way. Have a good night brother.

[@CGQuarterly]

Did you catch the read-through of PSM #2 that I did on the other channel a couple of weeks back?

[@Ralph_Sandwich]

@@CGQuarterly yes sir. Im glad you mentioned it on this channel or I may have missed it. Subbed to both now. I've been watching for a couple years now so there's quite a few of your videos in my back log but I've been watching one or two a week to catch up. Thanks again for all the work you put into your channels. Always excited to see a new video drop.

[@Nice_Places]

37:30 not sure if someone else already pointed this out but I believe the magazine made a mistake when reviewing Splatterhouse 3. The publisher is Namco (or Namcot) not Konami, right?

[@x2ul725]

I think the SNES had a watershed moment itself when they took away the blood code in Mortal Kombat series, that SGEN had working well. You got red sweat on the SNES...ur vids are alot of fun thanks !!!!

[@SpeccyHorace]

Great video mate. This was very much my era, I would have been 10 years old with my Mega Drive at this point. I don't remember this magazine though; I was very much a Sega Power kid, and occasionally Sega Pro. Sadly don't have any of them any more. Oh and that Brad guy was definitely an exception with regards violent games :)

[@sloppynyuszi]

Sega Power was the best. I couldn’t get enough of them reviewing bad games. Or any of the other weird BS they did. It was a lot more fun than Edge or al those other rags trying to be all serious

[@retronaut8864]

Hey there! Yours is easily my favorite retro gaming channel. Really love the solid content and journalistic approach. I know you get a lot of opinions on this, so I'm going to throw in my two cents, one of the first thing I noticed was that you actually stop and talk about the sports games. Now, when I was a kid, my friends and I honestly just looked straight past most of them, they weren't even on our radar, and my thought was always "who actually plays these?!" That being said, I actually really enjoy your take on retro sports games because I always get a glimpse into a whole, giant subsection of retro gaming that I don't even have the slightest clue about. Who knew that there was one baseball game on the NES with a contract to use players names, and a different one licensed to use team names? I sure didn't, but I do now! I also come away with a better idea for what makes one baseball game better than another, because before they all looked the same to me. For most of this stuff, I'm just reliving the past out of nostalgia, but when you talk sports, I actually come away having learned something. What makes your channel unique is that you tend to take a deep dive on a topic with a mixture of researched facts and your own personal and unique perspective. That's what makes the CGQ so great, so keep it up!

[@ClassicGamingLives]

I love collecting these magazines

[@neccros007]

I used to buy Amiga Action magazine as well.... LOVE UK mags!!

[@michaelanderson9792]

I get ideas for retro games that need thank you

[@littleterr0r]

I'm around your age and here in Oregon we had Chupa Chups but we pronounced them "Choopah Choops." They were pretty popular in middle school and I even had a giant novelty version for a while.

[@jameswalt1]

Awesome episode! I grew up in England, and I absolutely cherish the gaming mags of the early 90's. Please do a Mean Machines Magazine episode! ♥️

[@CGQuarterly]

I would love to! Just need to order an issue on Ebay.

[@jameswalt1]

@@CGQuarterly I have a duplicate of a particularly great issue of mean machines Sega, its the 180 page Christmas special 1992. I'd love to send to your po box if you'll do an episode at some point.

[@CGQuarterly]

Sure! I’d be happy to buy it from you...

[@jameswalt1]

@@CGQuarterly No way, 100% a channel donation. I have a couple more duplicates I think. I'll send those too!

[@wrena79]

Jeez I had this one. But then tbf back then I collected a tonne of magazines and had piles of them. Sold them all now apart from my Retro Gamer magazine collection. That goes nowhere lol.

[@NirnBootMod]

If you go back and watch TMNT, I was surprised to notice in all 8 seasons... I only saw Michelangelo use nun-chucks in a small handful of episodes. 99% of the time he uses a grappling hook. They must have not used nun-chucks on purpose globally to sensor for the UK. He has them in the intros... but in the actual episodes he barely ever uses them.

[@Bangyourbirdnumb]

I think the price point for the mag at 99p reflects the value of the people behind it and their skills as "journalists". It's no Mean Machines that's for sure.

[@akalyx]

kim justice explains the nunchaku censorship in one of her vids.. i'll summarize: there was a high-ranking lawmaker (whatever they are called in britain) who didn't like the portrayal of nunchaku in movies, he banned them up until the time he died/resigned (mid 2000s) the restrictions were lifted right after he died

[@rayo.]

The reason "ninja" and Nunchuck themes were banned was because every allusion to japanese culture was frowned upon in the UK after the unfortunate events of WWII.

[@alk7934]

You better get that 486! The 386 was about 7 years old at that point.

[@fgaze72]

It was pretty common in the UK for magazines to sell their first issue super cheap, as a kinda 'introductory price' or whatever

[@samtron5000]

I wish you made these everyday

[@samtron5000]

we do in fact have chupa chups suckers haha. my kids love them

[@Psyklax]

I would like to point out that violent games were certainly as popular in the UK as in the US, and the violent content was never a reason to not release a game in the UK - it had more to do with sales, since they'd only release games that had a chance of making their investment back. Really the first time I recall that video game violence resulted in a different experience in the UK was Carmageddon. Also, the nunchuck situation was even worse than you think: they were a banned weapon and couldn't be shown ANYWHERE, which meant that martial arts films, most notably Enter The Dragon, had to be edited to remove the nunchucks. I remember being quite excited to get a Region 1 import of ETD so that I could see it as it was meant to be seen at last. Enjoyed the video!

[@Jacksonzole57]

Pleaseeee more content!!! Ur the man!!!

[@SplinterAce]

Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.

[@barryschalkwijk9388]

Now i'm left wondering how does robot progeny even work

[@jim7205]

This was awesome thanks for the the video.

[@JustChrisWillDoTa]

Nice video. Ossett isn't north west of Manchester though. Ossett in yorkshire is on the east side of the pennines, and Manchester in Lancashire is on the west side of the pennines. Not important, just thought I'd say.

[@CGQuarterly]

Explains why I got C's in geography.

[@teen_laqueefa]

representing for the gangstas all across the world

[@gfig22]

Thanks, CGQ.

[@byronlaw6491]

Fantastic video as usual. Thanks for this it really helps to lift the gloom a lot. I didn’t have a mega drive at this time I had moved from an NES to SNES (I had that Street fighter bundle that was the giveaway on page 2) in 92 but my friend next door had a mega drive from 91. My local video game/newsagent here in the UK (still around doesn’t sell games now tho) called Cannings used to get imports and I remember seeing Splatterhouse 3 in there thinking I wish I had a mega drive as that cover was awesome. Deffo a typo on the price of the games in the mag. SNES games were even more expensive usually they were £59.99 so rental was king. I often wished I’d asked for a mega drive for Christmas due to the lower price of the games but Street Fighter was a huge draw as an exclusive. The import scene was great tho as I rented Star Fox (they rented you the converter no extra cost) well before it’s UK release. Here in the UK the Turtles film was called Ninja still and a discount shop near me imported US action figures with the word Ninja on them so the censorship was not only strange but pretty pointless as we knew they were ninja’s anyway. The 0891 numbers all seemed to be 39p a minute which was a lot at the time. Anyway sorry for the long comment just really enjoyed the video

[@danielposey0620]

Yeah I remember when game mags were a buck fifty an issue, that sounds about right to me, the more expensive mags were the ones that came with a demo disc or something. Magazines are insanely high now though, several dollars for a mag & doesn’t even come with any “extras”.

[@CGQuarterly]

Dude, I buy PC Gamer now, and it's $10 per issue! No demo disc or anything, either. Not good value-for-money.

[@SonofSethoitae]

Why would you play a game called "Splatterhouse" if you don't like violent video games? It's not like the name misleads you as to the content

[@SamuraiSam]

Ironically the SNES version of The Humans was only released in Europe!

[@CGQuarterly]

That's so weird...

[@sloppynyuszi]

Someone from Australia send this man some Old Hyper Magazines.

[@Ruudos]

All Tiny Toon games from Konami are worth playing.

[@thegrandduke1076]

Great video, just to explain the reason you were not allowed to show nunchucks here is because alot of gangs and children were making them at home and beating each other, it was a huge problem here in the 80s and 90s

[@CGQuarterly]

Holy crap!

[@thegrandduke1076]

@@CGQuarterly scary times! keep up the good work love your vids!!

[@teen_laqueefa]

@@CGQuarterly" Knickers and nun-chucks; the problem with sex and violence in modern media" a title I just made up for poking fun at the juxtaposition of everything in his comment to what I picture as England in my head

[@chefm6839]

I remember Bob and rocket knight

[@akalyx]

@30:17 - "long in the tooth" -- a fellow jeremy parish viewer...i knew it when i heard you say "i know xevious is a very important game, i just don't like it" [s.i.c]

[@BigBangBlitz]

That magazine is not at all reliable. Hell the fact file info says Splatterhouse 3 was being published by Konami. Lots of weird errors.

[@mossy78]

I loved the strike games 🚁

[@death2all79zx]

oh, those 900 numbers...

[@SophiaNyx]

Awesome vid! :)

[@jasonfinn5517]

we british love violent video games,as long as they are good,it was the conservative goverment who over reacted to this new industry

[@jasonfinn5517]

and of course some reviewers but as some one who read uk mags over many years this guy is the odd one out as british people love violent games and movies,once again as long as they are good

[@shootboxpodcast]

Haven't seen an upload from you in a while, hope you're alright friend!

[@CGQuarterly]

Hey, I'm good. Thanks for asking! I've uploaded a few videos over on the other channel...

[@sirlancenotalot2765]

I’m from the UK and the same age as you Chris. I just want to say that we definitely did think gore was cool and I’ve got no idea why these reviewers were such prudes. They also appeared to talk out of their 🍑 a lot. Interesting to read now but I can see why this msg was never as popular as the mainstream publications

[@lobonegro1567]

31:39 Doing duckface LOL😂

[@SS-Tommy]

I don't know if you've ever played the snes starfox, but I'd like you to do an episode on that if you could. Thanks for reading.

[@rayzaramon6598]

Rocket Knight might be a Possumillo.😅 I'm absolutely SHOCKED that you didn't know about the Flinstones game. It's Rare and expensive.

[@EliteEleven11]

What? Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles? What the hell did the kids think Michelangelo’s weapon was? His fists? I need to know more!

[@BeerBaron23]

yah really... like did they just edit out all of Michelangelo's fights when his nun-chucks were on screen? he must have been pretty lame then...

[@jasonbrown467]

i still have my original strike genesis games, seems like i beat them , one of those games had you get out on foot at some point. anyways yes they are great games.

[@madspunky]

If you ever need an old issue of Edge magazine (I have them all), just let me know, I can lend you out one.

[@CGQuarterly]

Thanks!!

[@madspunky]

@@CGQuarterly [e-mail]

[@Cooe.]

They definitely sell Chupa Chups in North America, and have for a looooooooooong time.

[@tokubrony9447]

Status on Sega Genesis in 1991?

[@brunobarcelos1093]

Here in Brazil Chupa Chups is a good selling lollipop. A really silly and funny name for Portuguese speakers. 😂😂

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

Please do a SNES in 1992 video.

[@Cooe.]

The Mega Drive / Genesis 2 was a MUCH cheaper system to produce than the original model. It had a vastly simplified board layout with far fewer chips. The usual console revision stuff.

[@sloppynyuszi]

Also removed the headphone jack. Another thing Apple just copied from other manufacturers. 😡

[@Cooe.]

@@sloppynyuszi Not just the headphone jack, but native stereo audio output ENTIRELY. (The only way to get proper two-channel stereo audio out of the MD/Genesis w/o mods is via the OG model's headphone jack). The other major difference is its use of an ever so slightly different Yamaha FM Synthesis chip for audio processing. This meant that the sound output/profile of both models were actually quite different (most people definitely prefer the OG model's chip, but that's not 100% universal. Most esp. for those who grew up w/ a model 2).

[@sparkles837]

Can you do the launch of the nes

[@jerrycox9618]

You live tonight? I haven't been able to catch one for awhile.

[@CGQuarterly]

No, I haven't been doing the Tuesday night live streams for a while now.

[@jerrycox9618]

@@CGQuarterly Ok, thanks. Keep Your head up. Godspeed.

[@j0nnyism]

A lot of megadrive games sold for £25 in the uk it’s why Nintendo didn’t do very well as the prices were much higher

[@j0nnyism]

Because of crappy EU rules we had to wait for translations into Spanish German etc just to get a UK release which could take years. Thankgod that’s over

[@SMAAAASHTV]

Sunset Riders is good, but the Genesis version is a little lacking, kinda slow and doesn't look as good as the SNES or Arcade version. It was meant to be hard, since the arcade was trying to eat all your quarters.

[@sirlancenotalot2765]

I commend you for calling us “Great Britain” and using the term “British”. Most Americans simply call our country “England” and say “English”. I’m Welsh and it does tend to grate on us Celts (Welsh and Scottish) a little bit 👍

[@brunoseverino2082]

Hey man, I've been trying to message you on Twitter and Instagram unsuccessfully . I would love to see a video of yours about the history of Zeebo, a console made for emerging economy countries. I'd suggest some KZbinrs from Brazil, like Velberan and ColoniaContraAtaca to help with the material. I think it would be a really interesting topic for you to cover. I know i'm not a supporter of the show (for monetary reasons), but i think it it's a really interesting topic for you to dig in. I hope i didn't sound harsh or anything, i'm just a fan from across the seas who really love your content. Sorry for any grammar erros i may have made, i'm still on the learning process. Thank you for your attention anyway. Keep up the good work.

[@CGQuarterly]

Hey Bruno. Sorry, I haven't gotten any messages from you that I know of. I don't know much about the Zeebo, but I'll look into it. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@teen_laqueefa]

@@CGQuarterly I also am intrigued by it.

[@shifty2755]

I hope this magazine, coming from the UK, enables you to spell correctly as an American.

[@Trainy2]

Lol I love the British guy complaining about excessive violence in a Splatterhouse game. That's kinda the gimmick of them.

[@davephillips6733]

I had this!

[@DeformedConscience]

Sunset Riders is way better on the SNES. Has all 4 characters and all levels #1, much better OST etc.

[@SpeccyHorace]

The censorship on the SNES kills it for me, I hate that.

[@maziarkd]

Binary code is what computers use under the hood. It's just 1's and 0's arranged in specific ways which eventually end up as all software. So a binary fart is a digital fart. I'm pretty sure he wanted to say binary turd though.

[@damienhartley3222]

Actually intel did not need emulation because pre potato cpu where basically generic IBM cpu kinda like power pc but alot more simple with no hybrid arm teckolodgy however arm was very much a thing yet microsoft and intel had control of the bussiness enterprise market but for a very short time intel was open to linux so the sega pc was a thing that is very rare and most people who cliam to have a sega pc are just faking it with a modified potato pc that has free dos that can read sega carts via a sega geniuses insided the pc and they basicly have a video signal switch with scart to vga.

[@chrismcovell]

Great read-through. Wow, that magazine's entire layout is shamelessly ripped off from Future's magazines like Super Play... Just put them side-by-side if you have an issue of SP. About UK censorship history, there's a succinct article on Tedium that you can find with a search for "Tedium James Ferman"

[@dbnpoldermans4120]

One thing very important You must and I mean must try the color patch ans the sound patch for this game on the megadrive. It is a world of difference. Or just check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6jJkJ2gZ6qXqac

[@whiterabbit1632]

Until recent times the sight or mention in the media or possession of nunchaku in the UK and Hong Kong was illegal and sales banned. However in mainland China is legal to own and possess nunchaku. In the Bruce Lee movie Enter the Dragon, the nunchaku scenes where cut leaving a gap in until the BBFC passed it in 2000. I will let you draw your own conclusions and answers to this argument of imperial proportions. I have a pair and have been practicing for nearly 10 years. You tend to only bonk yourself on the head once...

[@mavlok]

"Seegnosis?" Really?

[@CGQuarterly]

I said "sig-nosis", not "seeg-nosis".

[@CondemnedToBeMe]

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