Most Missed Defunct Gaming Magazines?

[diaglo]

I miss Polyhedron when it was a monthly magazine mailed to RGPA members as part of their membership. Lots of great stuff, especially in the issues before #100.

ditto.

White Dwarf

The Strategic Review

Imagine

and The Dragon too...

 

[Ranes]

White Dwarf when it was not a house organ.

Nitpick: it was always a house organ. But I know what you're getting at. I miss those days, too.

And another vote for Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society.

Mayday... Mayday... We are under attack...

 

[Doug McCrae]

White Dwarf back when it was good.

 

[jaerdaph]

Polyhedron and Shred

I miss Polyhedron. I miss it a lot.

I also miss Shred Magazine, especially Bill Connor's Historical Rip-Off Theater and Nefarious Dr. Random articles. Shred only made it to seven issues, but it was a fun little gaming magazine.

 

[Wombat]

Wyrms Footnotes It was All Things RuneQuest and I loved it for it! Dark Troll jokes rule!

I also have a softspot in my heart for Different Worlds, simply because this was the first place I was ever published

And White Wolf was good ... until it became Inphobia, at which point it promptly sucked dirty swamp water.

The Dragon and The Strategic Review were godsends in the early days of gaming (as well as Alarum & Excursions), but I'm not sure I miss them enough to ask them to come back. By modern standards, they were both pretty cheesy.

 

[Glyfair]

Wyrms Footnotes It was All Things RuneQuest and I loved it for it! Dark Troll jokes rule!

Indeed, if I had read this when it was originally released (I didn't stumble upon it until just after it was cancelled), it would be on my list. For me, a focus on a specific game or something similiar is important. Otherwise, too much is completely wasted.

(as well as Alarum & Excursions), but I'm not sure I miss them enough to ask them to come back. By modern standards, they were both pretty cheesy.

If you count fanzines (which I wasn't), I'd have to count Tales of the Reaching Moon. Few "professional" publications met their level of quality.

 

[shady]

White Dwarf, for the reasons mentioned
Travellers Digest/Megatraveller Journal (though in the latter case only 4 issues and those published at seemingly random intervals, so despite the very high quality not so much of an emotional attachment)
JTAS, but not Challenge
Wyrms Footnotes
Tales of the Reaching Moon
Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer
... and again Dungeon/Polyhedron, again for reasons mentioned

 

[Jonny Nexus]

Nitpick: it was always a house organ. But I know what you're getting at. I miss those days, too.

Yeah, but in those days it was the house organ of a roleplaying games company, whilst now it's the house organ of miniatures wargames company.

(As a side note, the bitterness left in the UK roleplaying scene by Games Workshop's withdrawl from roleplaying is still so great - nearly twenty years later - that all discussion of it in uk.games.roleplay is officially banned by the newsgroup's charter).

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I also missed the ARES section of Dragon.

Heck, I miss the original Ares, before the company got bought by TSR. Another magazine I no longer have any issues of... each issue seemed to have a wargame, and as the pieces got lost interest in the issues faded... *sigh*

To that I'd add Interface and Punk 21, a pair of magazines dedicated to supporting Cyberpunk 2020.

The only Interface I ever read was the crossover issue with Unspeakable Oath, where the phrase Cthulhupunk was first used.

The Auld Grump

 

[TheAuldGrump]

The Dragon, Different Worlds (to buy your favorite back issues, see our site in my .sig), White Wolf, Arcane, and Polyhedron to a lesser extend: I really liked the general-interest gaming magazines the most....

*Clicks the Link*
Gigi D'Arn! Now there's a name I haven't heard in years.

Sorry, I seem to have hijacked my own thread...

The Auld Grump

*EDIT* I am going to be rummaging around for a while... I see that they have Gamelords' Free City of Haven...