How did you find out about hyper and convinced to buy it? [Archive]

FX-GTZ

12-08-2009, 05:27 PM

Lifeline... Yep, thats how, they had a stack of old issue's lieing around near the fiction books and car mags, so i purchased them all for $3. Many of the issue's were so old that the games in the mag were of super nintendo and dreamcast, sega satern games here and there.. tons of gameboy reviews!
I remember that there used to be a trader section on the last page of the magazine too, why would you take that away from hyper after having it for so long? oh well.

Second

12-08-2009, 05:32 PM

Was a Nintendo fanboy in my younger days and used to get NMS every week. Eventually I grew out of it and expanded to multiplatform mags. I think I've only bought the mag a total of 5 times.

Ryan Hayward

12-08-2009, 05:39 PM

I was at my cousin's house one day and feeling kinda horny. So I was looking through her playboy collection that just so happens to be by the toilet and by chance, she had a few issues of Hyper as well. I really gotta say the Tombraider feature of Lara Croft got me stroking it and from that moment, I became a hyper subscriber for life!

Clockw0rk

12-08-2009, 05:39 PM

The first issue I bought was the one that had the Max Payne article. After that, EGM got ridiculously expensive so I ditched it in favour of Hyper

BB2K

12-08-2009, 05:40 PM

I think I bought it because I just bought Phantom Hourglass and wanted to read a review of it. As it turned out, the review wasn't in that issue but I have continued to get Hyper to this day.

JubeiSaotome

12-08-2009, 05:43 PM

I saw Issue 2 at the local corner deli. Been reading every now and then since that moment.

Spudzilla

12-08-2009, 05:45 PM

I only ever bought about 5-7 issues back in 2003 and just flicked through other peoples copies.

I don't remember the first issue of Hyper I bought, but I remember my first N64 Gamer had a review of Gex and my first issue of PCPP was way back in 1997 when they were doing a preview of Quake 1. That also happened to be the ONLY issue of PCPP I've ever bought.

IRS

12-08-2009, 05:52 PM

I bought one issue.

NMS4life

FrozenSoul80

12-08-2009, 05:52 PM

Never bought an issue, I used to read my friends copy at TAFE. I don't have a lot of money to throw around.

Adios

12-08-2009, 05:52 PM

Started off on N64 Gamer back in the day and followed that through to Nintendo Gamer (that's what it was called right?) until it closed up shop and I switched my subscription to Hyper :p

Slippery

12-08-2009, 05:56 PM

I subscribed for a few years back in 05-07 or whenever the Fish - Welks era is.

Watchers

12-08-2009, 05:57 PM

Used it to ween myself off my Nintendo fanboyism in my younger days. Started reading it regularly just after the GCN came out to start learning about what other games I was missing on other consoles.

Sweating Bullets

12-08-2009, 06:01 PM

Waaay back in the 90s - there were not a whole lot of Australian multi platform gaming magazines that were any good outside of Hyper.
I used to get a few other mags but either their reviews were really crap or their previews were really crap. Hyper always had a good balance.

JubeiSaotome

12-08-2009, 06:03 PM

Anyone remember GAMESTAR?

Thraxas

12-08-2009, 06:03 PM

When I first moved to Australia I couldn't get over how expensive all the gaming mags were $15-20... Hyper was cheap so I bought it...

SOX

12-08-2009, 06:06 PM

Started on NMS (which if you go back and look at now - is ****ing retarded, I can't believe I read that shit constantly), then moved onto N64 Gamer until that withered and died and finally Hyper just took over.

StorminNorman

12-08-2009, 06:13 PM

Found the first issue in the newsagent and noticed it was edited by former Megazone editor Stuart Clarke. Was too Sega-biased for my tastes at the time (same reason I stopped buying Megazone, oddly enough), so I didn't buy it until after Dan Toose became editor. By then it had replaced its Sega bias with a fairly blatant Sony bias.

aubergine

12-08-2009, 06:15 PM

Anyone remember GAMESTAR?

When I saw this thread title the post I imagined was "I remember when it first came out and there was some other magazine called Gametard or something."

Couldn't actually remember the name of the other one, but I remember its existence. Didn't it have Chun-Li on the cover?

Gametard is an awesome name for a magazine though, Next should give it to Dan Staines to run.

Spudzilla

12-08-2009, 06:19 PM

Bring back N64 Gamer!

Azzaman

12-08-2009, 06:51 PM

I happened across it by chance at a newsagent back in the super nintendo/mega drive days. I had a run recently where I bought both hyper and pcpp quite religiously for about 2-3 years, I only stopped in the past few months because money's a bit tight and I realised I had the option of reading about games or using that money to actually buy them.

Stevorooni

12-08-2009, 07:01 PM

Back in primary school I used to read the occasional Megazone, CVG, Mean Machines and Sega Power. Megazone got bought out or something and one day a kid brought in the first issue of Hyper with it's Virtual Sex article throbbing inside and other game things, edited by Megazone's former editor Stuart Clarke!

My brother bought me Issue 2 and then I didn't get it again until issue 11. I skipped about 3 issues somewhere near the early 20's, bought issue 1 as a back issue and have been buying it every month ever since.

I nearly stopped buying it again at one stage because there wasn't much worth reading that wasn't already available on the net, plus the whole unfunny in-joke saga, but Wilks has steered it in a direction I like with its features and opinion columns.

Halt, Hammerzeit

12-08-2009, 07:13 PM

Hyper's a magazine? When did that happen? :P

I bought one issue.

NMS4life

Word, bro.

Citizen Erased

12-08-2009, 07:18 PM

My first hyper was the one with Duke Nukem on the cover, I bought cause I had just started playing it. Been reading since then till now.

castr8or

12-08-2009, 07:39 PM

i would have bought my first hyper when megazone went bust

aubergine

12-08-2009, 07:45 PM

AranchineD

12-08-2009, 08:07 PM

I've told this story before, but I got an issue in an Easter Show showbag a couple years ago, which I bought for the PCPP magazine in it. It had a BMX XXX feature in it with lots of almost bare boobies. I was then subsequently hooked on the magazine.

Ryan Hayward

12-08-2009, 08:53 PM

I gotta admit that Wilks has done a pretty good job as editor. Cam was quite the opposite with his bipolar rants and anarchy direction. You guys remember when Amos Hong was mascot and that do-mannerism bullshit?

Stevorooni

12-08-2009, 09:17 PM

Anyone remember GAMESTAR?

I have a couple of issues of it and won Radical Rex on the Snes and a Radical Rex skateboard in one of their competitions

punkgorilla

12-08-2009, 10:11 PM

Lazlow

12-08-2009, 10:55 PM

Being a young kid hooked on the gratuitous violence of Mortal Kombat, I instantly snapped up Issue 19 with Hatton's awesome MK3 artwork on it. Used to buy Sega Megazone before then, even though I only had a Master System, which they'd pretty much stopped covering.

TAT

13-08-2009, 04:05 AM

I was at my dad's work and found a copy of the Alien Trilogy issue which I then pilfered for myself. The rest is history (h)

Blue

13-08-2009, 05:40 AM

Started off on N64 Gamer back in the day and followed that through to Nintendo Gamer (that's what it was called right?) until it closed up shop and I switched my subscription to Hyper :pThis, except for the subscription. I bought every issue of Nintendo Gamer from the GameCube launch issue to close. What a shit magazine.

Hyper isn't bad, except for the lack of professionalism that I find irritating. However, gaming magazines are for kids, really. Something to read on a long car trip or on the toilet. The internet is current and free.

EDIT: Although, that lack of professionalism (mostly due to the Cam Shea crew) is what took me to *doesmannerism*, and eventually here. Go figure.

Looking back now, it's clear that Farrelly and Andreadis, and the rest, were basically using the whole magazine as their cum rag. Although Blake did get published back then, so that was a positive.

Xanafalgue

13-08-2009, 11:14 AM

I started buying Hyper when Megazone died back in 1995!

Well, *I* didn't buy it, my mother did after I wore her down with tantrums only a 10 year old could muster! I believe it was only $4 or 5.95 at the time!

Stopped buying in 2000 when I stopped playing games. Started buying every now and then in 2006 when I started again :D

enrique

13-08-2009, 11:31 AM

I first noticed Hyper whilst I was browsing through my local library or what others would describe as a 'newsagency' lol...Thinking back Im surprised I didnt notice it earlier.

Ad-Rock

13-08-2009, 11:51 AM

I started collecting when PSX Wild (editor was cam shea) stopped being producued.

EDIT: I liked the Cam Shea days of Hyper, nothing was taken too seriously.

Zzz

13-08-2009, 11:52 AM

Anyone remember GAMESTAR?

I'm pretty sure I have a copy of one somewhere. I'm gonna have to look for it now. From memory, it was a mess.

On topic, I started buying Hyper because I liked to read, I had a voracious appetite for game cheats and codes and mostly because it was one of the cheaper mags on the shelf. I religiously bought the mag for about 3 years, until they put all of the content on the website. For free.

I can't remember the dates, but I have a fair few. It's the Doom 2 cover to the Baldur's Gate 2 cover. I've read them all cover to cover, and every now and then I'll pull one out and read a review for an now-obscure game: say, William Shatner's TekWar (http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner%27s_TekWar).

I picked it up again when I got a PS2 later on, because I was back into gaming and wanted info in MGS2. I continued getting Hyper regularly for a year or two and then it sort of petered out. I still buy it every now and then - mostly out of a sense of duty and nostalgia.

We'll always have the good times, though.

Darren

13-08-2009, 02:03 PM

Somewhere in the home archives, I have an old, old copy of Hyper. Doom II was on the cover, I believe.

Now, here I am, writing for that very magazine.

Stevorooni

13-08-2009, 02:23 PM

Somewhere in the home archives, I have an old, old copy of Hyper. Doom II was on the cover, I believe.

Now, here I am, writing for that very magazine.

This is kind of scary but I reckon that was issue 12 >_> Do I win a prize if I'm right?

Darren

13-08-2009, 02:36 PM

This is kind of scary but I reckon that was issue 12 >_> Do I win a prize if I'm right?
If you're right, I'll take a photo of me giving the thumbs-up and A-OK signs at the same time. How's that?

Also, I wish to clarify the terrible wording of my previous post. I haven't somehow gone back in time and written for the issue of Hyper with Doom II on the cover. ("writing for that very magazine") No, I'm writing in the here and now. And that's pretty cool, too.

SOX

13-08-2009, 02:39 PM

Also, I wish to clarify the terrible wording of my previous post. I haven't somehow gone back in time and written for the issue of Hyper with Doom II on the cover. ("writing for that very magazine") No, I'm writing in the here and now. And that's pretty cool, too.
But much less impressive than time travelling...

Darren

13-08-2009, 02:40 PM

But much less impressive than time travelling...
Today: Hyper
Tomorrow: Time travel
Yesterday: Become my own grandfather

Or something like that.

Spudzilla

13-08-2009, 02:40 PM

...and I scoff at time travelling.

Stevorooni

13-08-2009, 09:06 PM

If you're right, I'll take a photo of me giving the thumbs-up and A-OK signs at the same time. How's that?

Well, Wellsy it's time to pay up!

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b358/Stevorooni/hyper12.jpg

I can't believe that I can remember random crap like that yet I had trouble with exams.

Let's take a flick through

That new Donkey Kong Country is sure looking good, it's made by developers working on Ultra 64 games!

Sega used the Snes screenshots for Mortal Kombat II to promote the Megadrive version

The Aura Interactor will let you feel every punch, slam dunk and explosion through vibrations (wow, the future!) and you can win one!

Page 49 is falling out due to staples

Radical Rex scored 70

F10 and B will change the border colour in Commander Keen 6

Someone wants a rich, Snes owning, generous, super wild card owning girl as penpal for desperate 12 year old male.

All for only $4.95! What great value!

Jickle

13-08-2009, 09:28 PM

The first issue I bought had Resident Evil 2 on the cover. I have no idea why I grabbed it really, I think I just wanted to expand my general knowledge of all things gaming. I bought it on and off over the years, and then started buying it regularly when the Gamecube came out. I've missed two issues (both with Halo 3 on the cover) since then due to low funds.

And look at me now. Now I drive the school bus!

JubeiSaotome

13-08-2009, 09:48 PM

All for only $4.95! What great value!

Used to be the same price for a Large Qtr Pounder Meal. ;_; I miss those days.

Gilder

13-08-2009, 10:06 PM

My brother face planted into the asphalt playing basketball and knocked out his front teeth, resulting in him taking a few weeks off school. To keep him occupied my mum bought him an issue of Hyper (it had Masters of Teras Kasi on the cover from memory). We later found out a mate had a mountain of back issues that he was keen to get rid of, so we read through those.

My brother eventually lost interest in gaming and stopped buying the mag, so I started buying it instead for a few years. I stopped reading it a few years ago though.

Darren

13-08-2009, 10:07 PM

Well, Wellsy it's time to pay up!

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b358/Stevorooni/hyper12.jpg

That's the one!

And... a deal's a deal.

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk85/ChaoticJack/Random/dw_thumbs_ok.jpg

Stevorooni

13-08-2009, 10:15 PM

I will treasure that photo until the end of the current minute.

Second

14-08-2009, 12:42 AM

I expected someone... older.

fearofthesky

14-08-2009, 12:50 AM

*Reminice mode: ON*

I remember it like it was yesterday. My vocational outside of school activity tutor thingo person bought me a reward each week if I worked hard and studied diligently. She had bought me NMS the previous week, so was kinda stuck for what to get me this week. She bought me issue 13 of Hyper. It had spesh 3D Donkey Kong on the front! Donkey Kong Country!

Wow if there was ever a game to get an 10 year old excited, this was the one! I missed the next issue, but that was the last one I ever missed. Hyper has been with me, through thick and thin, from pixels and platformers to polygons and puckheads (XBL...) from my spry 10 year old ADHD self to the crochety old bastard of 25 you read today!

*Reminice mode: off*

Man, did NMS ever go downhill when it got bought out. Makes me shudder when I think about how bad it got. *shudder* Just thought about the Yoshi/Joshi/Toshi/Boshi/Doshi etc war between the readers, of which they just kept on publishing for some craaazy reason.

Darren

14-08-2009, 06:53 AM

I expected someone... older.
How old do I need to be?

sausage

14-08-2009, 08:16 AM

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk85/ChaoticJack/Random/dw_thumbs_ok.jpg

"That big when it's flaccid and that big when it's hard."

Australian Ninja

14-08-2009, 10:03 AM

Hmmm...

Used to browse Hyper in the newsagent when I had no money (right from issue #1).
Then used to read issues in the fremantle public library (around 2001-03).

Then bought odd issues, then got subs for the last 4 years running, seeing as I actually have some money.

Then moved stack of magazines from glorious old dusty cardboard box with bits of crusty tape on the side to slightly less dusty bookshelf for easy browsing and re-reading at my leisure.

Oh, and I don't know what the hullabaloo was all about with readers bitching in the Cam Shea days. Whiny bitches! I never had a problem with any of it, but I don't take most things very seriously, and have enjoyed all the various editors and contributors over the years.

ElPresidente

14-08-2009, 10:31 AM

I expected someone... older.

I expected a Victorian.

dimorphic

14-08-2009, 11:29 AM

I can't really remember the first issue I bought. I used to like reading mutli-platform mags because in my days as a fanboy I could scope out the competition and such.

Twisted Conspiracy

14-08-2009, 11:45 AM

Total Gamer. I subscribed to it the issue before it "ceased." My sub was then transferred to Nintendo Gamer and then Hyper.

Cicada

14-08-2009, 11:47 AM

Essentially the same story for me too.

Me three. Looking at the disparity in writing quality between Hyper and Nintendo/64 Gamer now is... disturbing. Still, I credit n64 gamer for improving my English skills when I was VERY young, introducing me to such magnificent words as "mediocre", "maneuverable" and "psuedo".

drzaius

14-08-2009, 12:51 PM

As an 11 year old boy i bought issue #1 because it had the article about sex and computer games (pretty much an irresistable combination).

I've bought every issue since. I'm now 26. don't tell my girlfriend.

Stevorooni

14-08-2009, 03:28 PM

Imagine if Hyper started when video games started

Reviewed this issue: Pong! .... and ... that's it...

Serenity

14-08-2009, 06:49 PM

I first started buying early on in 2003 I think it was. My memory's gone a bit dodgy (even though I'm only 19) and I remember my favourite issue was I think it was the 10th anniversary one? I forget if it was a 10th anniversary one or 100th issue one. It was red with a montage of different scenes from various games. Anyone know the one I mean? I'm pretty sure it was the 10th birthday issue. But yeah, I haven't bought regularly since maybe '06.

Ryan Hayward

15-08-2009, 05:10 PM

Used to be the same price for a Large Qtr Pounder Meal. ;_; I miss those days.

Remember back when Lifesavers and tic tacs were 30 cents? :)
Ironically, videogames haven't really increased in price at all ( unless you are stupid enough to pay retail price) and have many more hours of gameplay compared to the snes/megadrive days. Hasn't stopped people bitching about the price of games though....

grimace06

15-08-2009, 05:28 PM

I used to be a Nintendo fanboy who would feverishly buy N64/Nintendo Gamer until it died and they actually recommended in their last issue that we should support Hyper etc.

So I bought Issue 120 and have never looked back.

Also not a fanboy.