The Thread of Great Magazine Covers

[KK]

EDGE













Official PlayStation Magazine








Xbox World 360




Play




Official Xbox 360 Magazine




GamesMaster




Official PlayStation 2 Magazine




Official Nintendo Magazine




Retro Gamer




N64 Magazine

http://www.grcade.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19702

Empire eat your heart out.

Any in particular you liked that stand out over the years?

[False]

[Mafro]

[Jax]

Can't find an image for it but Xbox World did a great Homefront one which was in the style of North Korean propaganda. It came in an envelope too in 'Top Secret' style. It was awesome.

[HSH28]

Some pretty good ones in here...

[Shadow]

I remember this causing quite a stir in my pants.

[Uppa]

EDGE

My first issue of EDGE. I remember picking it up when myself and some friends stayed over at a friend's apartment in the Republic of Ireland, near the sea. I have very fond memories of that summer--we got a very hot couple of days when we stayed over, which was a bit of a novelty--and I recall most vividly that all of us were breathlessly excited for "the new Zelda," in between playing Tales of Symphonia together. I think we pored over EDGE's preview for the game for a very long time. To our great delight, that August, we all assembled again and headed over to an unusually sunny Edinburgh, where we'd get to play the newly-named Twilight Princess at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival. The nights before that trip were restless ones; I don't think we got a wink of sleep the night before, despite having to get up early to catch a boat over to Scotland and drive across the breadth of the country before the show started.

I've never been more excited for a game in my entire life. That issue, and the summer it heralded the arrival of, were pretty much together the catalyst for all that excitement--and I think the issue, in particular, is what brought me to the original Gamesradar forums, that year.

[Pell]

Xbox World 360

I'm so taking credit for those two.

Can't find an image for it but Xbox World did a great Homefront one which was in the style of North Korean propaganda. It came in an envelope too in 'Top Secret' style. It was awesome.

And that one. All three were my cover picks (and the metallic Dead Space logo colour change and the Korean propaganda & false cover were too). The Homefront issue didn't come in a top secret bag, though. Definitely not.

Course, it was Weaver and the two art boys who made the magic happen in the end.

Hopefully got some awesome-o things lined up for GamesMaster in the coming months.

[Jax]

The Homefront issue didn't come in a top secret bag, though. Definitely not.

I remember mine being in one, or something much like that. Not sure why then, if you're saying they didn't. It wasn't a subscriber issue or anything either, it was like that on the shelf, with Xbox World 360 on the front of it too.

[mcjihge2]

SuperPlay always had good cover art. What the hell happened to that guy?





And N64

[superfurryfox]

That guy Wil Overton went on to work for Rare and helped design the avatars and also runs a toy import shop (binkybox or something?).

He came back to do the cover for the last issue of Nintendo Gamer.

[Mafro]

I had that Perfect Dark poster on my wall years ago.

[mcjihge2]

Sinclair user had some good covers.

I had this operation wolf poster on my wall

[KK]

Best cover they ever did.

What isn't evident here is that it was given that special UV coating (or something similar).

[Rapidly-Greying]

Zzapp 64 and Your Sinclair had some great covers,more so Zzapp 64.

[jawafour]

Zzapp 64 and Your Sinclair had some great covers,more so Zzapp 64.

Oli Frey... the legendary master of videogame magazine covers:

[Dangerblade]

SuperPlay always had good cover art. What the hell happened to that guy?

That's Wil Overton. He still does covers for Retro Gamer, and he even posts on GRCade every now and again.