So I'm doing a bit of cleaning today, an found a ginormous stash of old magazines. Expert Gamer, Tips & Tricks, Nintendo Power, GameNOW....the list goes on.
I imagine some of you are/have been in the same boat as me, so I ask you: what did you do with your old magazines? Throw them in storage for a nostalgia trip 20 years from now? Recycle them? Something in between?
Give me some ideas, duders. What should I do with the vast amount of pages of gaming tips, news, and reviews?
What To Do With Old Magazines?
Yeah, I have wondered this too. I have no idea what to do with my old magazines. Sometimes I like looking through them, and they provide a cool way to see what was happening in games at certain times. So I don't want to throw them away, but they take up so much space.
Put them in the bathrooms around your house. It is always nice to see what games used to look like, what kind of writing there was in these, reviews for games and compare to what we think of them now, previews are always hilarious where a game is getting hyped up even though back then it looked bad or we later found out it was a piece of garbage.
Yup, keep em because old game magazines are awesome when taking a dump.
I'm not really a collector...of anything. So I just throw them away after I'm done with 'em. I never go back to stuff like that anyway.
Or, I do still have some magazines from my childhood, but that's more for nostalgic reasons. I haven't really kept a single magazine the last 10 years.
I recycled quite a bit of my collection. I had Gamepro's, going back to the N64 era and was sad to have to toss them but toss them I did.
Only mags I keep now are year end issues of a music magazine I buy irregularly, Terrorizer.
Otherwise, recycled in one way or another, either into the recycling depot or else passed on to other people. I used to hate letting go of magazines but face it brother, you're not going to care what score Spyro 2 got today, never mind in the future. Use that space for something better.
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