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Loved Gamepro growing up, it was definitely my source of game info for quite a long time! The posters were so bad ass!

Interesting to look at some of these, even though I really never had a Gamepro magazine.

Nice retrospective. I'm a big fan of the magazine myself but my favorite years of the magazine were definitely the late 80's when it premiered through the mid 90's (about 1996) since my favorite eras of games are the 8-bit & 16-bit eras. The ones in the early 90's are probably my favorite ones. I loved their covers at that time, especially the Battle Toads issue I have. I even remember the GamePro TV show that was on in the early 90's which had video game tips/tricks, and a game show as well. I definitely remember the SWAT part. Man was I bummed out when the show was later on pulled from the air. The magazine itself ended last year around the late fall/winter of 2011 (I had to get the last issue).

Former GamePro subscriber here; thank you for this wonderful retrospective.

GamePro, I think, was the quintessential 90s gaming magazine. And by that I mean the absurdity of the product marketing in its ad pages and faux snarky writing by the editors. Video games were still sort of a Wild West back then and this is most clearly reflected in the style of GamepPro's content. There had yet to be an "orderly" approach by which journalists and the industry communicated with gamers.

In short, no one knew what the hell they were doing, and it was glorious.

I could've done without the home entertainment contest though. What a waste of money that scam was.

Here's an anecdote I shared on another GamePro-related post, as I think it befitting the subject:

"One afternoon during the spring of 1999, a 16-year-old Evil Ivan is reading the previews section in the latest issue of GamePro. He glances at a modest but noticeable preview of an upcoming title for the Sony PlayStation. Somewhat curious, the boy decides to read the entire entry. After finishing, he snorts:

'A realistic First-person game set in World War II? What a stupid idea! It doesn't sound interesting at all. Medal of Honor.  Pfft."

By the way, when you said "killer Kawasaki", it sounded like you were saying "Killer Kowalski".