d21lewis said:
I don't know. I don't really follow gaming news as closely as I did back in the 90s when I bought EVERY magazine, even if I didn't own the platform!
There were times when it was horribly bad. PSM was running an article about how the PS2 would look like a Dreamcast and let you receive daily missions via the Internet--the exact same month that OPM had the PS2 on the cover! There was lots of misinformation (Die Hard Game Fan would just straight up print lies) back then in an attempt to be first with whatever news was breaking.
The interviews were usually well done, though. It just sucks living your whole life thinking something was fact only to grow up and find out it was misinformation.
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People shouldn't forget this. Gaming magazines were often terrible. From thinly veiled "reviews" that were just advertisements, to fake "rumors" that were essentially the same as modern clickbait, the only real difference being that they could get away with it because fact-checking was much harder to do back then and kids trusted whatever they read.
