The 90’s 'tude and constant sexism is just dripping off every page in these old gaming mags classic

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  • Andrzej3K [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I don’t know if it was the same in other countries, but in the UK there was a slew of Playstation magazines that were thinly veiled lad mags. They’d be called things like Playstation Max and have features about the best video game arses, or just straight up pictures of real boobs, because why not

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      I had a bunch of PS1 era issues of the UK version of The Official PlayStation Magazine (and some US ones) as a kid, then a bit later I bought one in the early 2000s and it was noticeably sleazier- for example, there was a section for porn movie reviews

      • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Didn’t see porn reviews in the handful I just checked, but I did see a full page of phone sex ads in two separate issues as well as one ad for an obvious scam purporting to have a strategy for fruit machines, which seems wild for an official magazine. Were there really no less skeevy advertisers available for a magazine that likely had a circulation in the hundreds of thousands?