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

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  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    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?