Electronic Gaming Monthly Reunion - Stories from EGM Staff at Midwest Gaming Classic 2023
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2023
- Electronic Gaming Monthly was one of the biggest and most influential magazines in video game history. How did they get so much information that the other magazines couldn't? What's the story behind Street Fighter's infamous Sheng Long? And who was Sushi-X really? Former EGM editors Ken Williams, Ray Price, "Trickman" Terry Minnich, and Mike Vallas share all of this and more in a talk moderated by Frank Cifaldi of The Video Game History Foundation.
Special thank you to My Life in Gaming for filming this event!
Late 80's to early 90's EGM pre-Ziff Davis was the pinnacle of gaming journalism. These guys made my childhood bearable. I did not grow up in a kind environment, so games and game magazines were my only real escape.
I didn't know how many times i read all those issues cover to cover back then. It's so surreal to see these guys up there like that, back together again.
I always pictured Sushi-X differently in my headcannon. But hearing him speak, I'm like "Yup, that's the guy."
Thanks for all the great articles, memories, fun times, excitement, and this video. What a treasure.
EGM was my 90s monthly video game magazine.
These guys were and still are rock stars to me. Their work was exceptional, engraining, influential, cutting-edge. To this day, their quality and body of work remain untouched.
EGM was my gaming magazine growing up. Weirdly excited to watch this. I still follow Seanbaby's online antics because of the magazine.
This panel was so great. I was the guy asking the questions about Midway being contractual and the New Kids on the Block story being true/false. It was so awesome to hear these guys speak after all the years of content they provided in the 90s for us gamers.
I desperately wanted to write for EGM in the '90s... I failed that dream, but I enjoyed reading while it lasted. Kept me apart of the industry and the community back then.
I love this, I have every single EGM from 1994-2002 in my closet and love hearing these early memories
EGM and Gamepro are forever the Goats
I still remember my first issue: EGM #72 with Batman Forever on the cover. I still remember the car ride home from the grocery store in rural LA where I was visiting, and from that night I was hooked. I still remember the layout changes to the reviews, I remember issue 100, Quarterman (Terry), Sushi X.
EGM was single-handedly responsible for making me as literate and educated as I am. Honestly EGm taught me 😢countless of words that I had to look up, those guys could really write.
Oh and GamePro was cool as an alternative, but anyone with sense knew that EGM was the best VideoGame mag
I had them all. I still have most of them. I am so glad that they enjoyed there experience!
I used to make magazines with Photoshop locally.
GameFan was my favourite for quality, but egm is my second favorite.
Also have all the egm2, next, game players, game pro, Nintendo power, etc...
Great info!❤
This is an amazing panel! I grew up with EGM as my favorite game mag through all of the 90s and early 00s. I finally know who Sushi-X is! This magazine was super important to me growing up being a gamer kid. I couldn't wait to get the new issue each month!
Living in Fiji Islands, EGM was the only gaming mag our bookstores stocked.
Loved reading it growing up in early to mid 2000s
This rocks.
I was reading EGM in the late 90's . Like 1998/1999/2000. I got used to the staff of that particular era. Shawn Smith, Dan "Shoe" Hsu, Crispin, Che, John Davidson, Milky... Their personalities really had a presence in all the stuff they wrote for the magazine. Combined with little peeks they included behind the scenes of what it was like to have that kind of job, it was like hanging out with a group of gamer friends in print. I still have those magazines in a box and sometimes I'll bring one to work to read during lunch break and it really transports me back to the late 90's. I remember what it felt like, how I was happy, carefree, optimistic, enjoying life, etc....
That was my era too.... but I had a problem with 3 reviewers in that era - Shawn Smith and Dan Shoe were playstation fanboys and they didn't even hide it, and Che Chou would purposely give lower score reviews, I guess he thought ppl would take him the most serious but instead I always skipped his reviews, ill never understand how EGM never had a problem with that...
Living in the UK, EGM wasn't exactly something you could get everywhere, but I always remember being overjoyed at finding a copy on the shelves and still managed to have a massive pile of copies. Such great times. Thanks for the memories!
I was a huge fan of EGM back in the 90s, so it was great to hear all these stories from the guys on the front lines of it back in the day. Also the Sushi-X thing and the story behind the Sheng Long AFD thing, totally took me back to the earliest issues I remember subscribing on (February '93) where people were *STILL* talking about it!
EGM the G.O.A.T!!
I was obsessed with the various newsstand video game magazines that could be found at the B. Dalton at Bayfair Mall... EGM might not have been the most "professional" among the selection, but it was always my favorite. It felt like actual video game fans were creating it, not mouthpieces for the video game companies. And the pictures - it felt like I was looking at top secret information that the manufacturers didn't want the public to see. I had no idea that actually, yes, that was true.
So anyway, just to share my story, I was the winner of the Sega CD contest in one of the EGM issues - it was a high score competition for Genesis Stormlord of all games. I was a sophomore in high school so basically the perfect age for for a contest like that. I rented Stormlord (had no interest in buying it), and stayed up late grinding out a high score by repeating a certain section - something like 999900. I'm guessing that's the score a lot of people submitted. But then I realized, Stormlord has an uncommon enemy worth something like 50 points. So, I went through the whole process again but making sure to kill one of those enemies for a score of 999950. And to my amazement, it actually worked and I won! My first CD player was that Sega CD - cool stuff.
Truly awesome interview
So awesome! Please do CGW/GFW reunion. 🙏
Loved this magazine in the late 80s and early 90s. I do remember seeing the Street Fighter II issues with those photoshopped images. :)
Damn. Egm. After my Nintendo power sub expired I switched to EGM...I think I had it for at least 7ish years from like 97 to 04 or 05
PLEASE DO ONE FOR GAMEPRO Magazine !!
I subscribed to EGM and Computer Game Review. Would love to see something on CGR.
As busy as it was, I can’t imagine even have any time to read the competition magazines.
I hope you will consider a docudrama about this magazine
Everyone keeps saying 90s. I read this magazine well into the 2000's. Only when it started doing a website e-mag did it truly fall apart. I loved this magazine more than any other publication. It was enjoyable from cover to cover with insight jokes opinions and rumors that literally no other could come even remotely close. I was always confused how it shut down the first time considering it was considered the highest authority in gaming journalism. I worked at gamestop a long time ago and they sold subscriptions to their terrible magazine that came with their discount card so maybe that had a bit to do with it.
I read from issue 1 to around the late 90s. Wasn't a fan of the edgy cool kid vibe seanbaby brought to the magazine. I was 13 in 90 BTW. But i have great memories overall.
This is probably unlikely to reach the Foundation or anybody since this is a CZcams Comment but, does anyone here have an issue of British Magazine "Retro Gamer" titled "Before They Were Famous"?
How long did you have to wait to be able to use digital cameras? I remember reading about them first and popular science.
I'm going to guess probably late 90's, early 2000's - I remember my 7th/8th Grade Social Studies teacher brought in her new digital camera in 97/98, and we were all very impressed. They didn't start dropping down to really affordable levels until the late 90's, early 2000's.
Cool who is sushi x
Guy on far left was.
Who was sushi x?