Cover of the August 2002 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly
Electronic Gaming Monthly was perhaps the most popular and certain one of the longest lasting video game magazines in the U.S. The first issue came out in the late 1980s and it continued publication into the 2000s. The August 2002 issue includes:
Features
Miyamoto's Angels - Referring to Nintendo's popular franchises Metroid, Mario and Zelda. This article previews the new games coming soon in those franchises to the GameCube and Game Boy Advance including Super Mario Sunshine (GameCube), Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (GBA), Metroid Prime (GameCube), Metroid Fusion (Game Boy Advance), Legend of Zelda (GameCube), and Zelda GBA.
The First GameCube and Xbox RPGs - Morrowind for the Xbox (but honestly, your better off playing it on a PC) and Lost Kingdoms for the GameCube are a couple of the first major RPGs for those platforms.
Table of Contents from the August 2002 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly
Departments
Editorial - Looking at trends in video games, both good (adult themes in games) and bad (poor licensed games...but this has almost always been a trend).
Letters - Letters from readers about Tony Hawk 4, cel shading, Star Wars games, the Final Fantasy movie, and much more.
Press Start - The top news this month includes highlights from E3, and update on the PlayStation 2's success, Microsoft pushes online gaming with the Xbox and new games like Unreal Championship, Nintendo pushing new games in major franchises but lacks online presence (Phantasy Star Online is the only online game at the time). For the GBA, more games are being released that make use of the GB/GBA link. Get extras in Animal Crossing and Phantasy Star Online.
Gossip - Quartermann speculates on rumors including Sonic retiring from Adventure games; Rare to start developing games for multiple systems; Doom III for the Xbox; and more.
Review Crew
PlayStation 2
Aggressive Inline - Like Tony Hawk games but with inline skates.
Britney's Dance Beat - A pretty terrible music based game.
Dropship: United Peace Force - A combat vehicle sim in which you not only pilot aircraft but drive ground vehicles as well.
Endgame - A light gun game that you probably don't want.
Freekstyle - Kind of like SSX but with dirt bikes in instead of snowboards.
Legion: The Legend of Excalibur - A Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance like action/RPG that unfortunately does not live up to that comparison.
Fire Blade - A 3D combat helicopter arcade game.
The Mark of Kri - A 3D action adventure game that earns EGM's 'Game of the Month'.
MLB Slugfest 20-03 - A baseball game on steroids.
MX SuperFly Featuring Ricky Carmichael - A motocross sim with unrealistic physics...but fun to play.
Shifters - A not so great action/RPG.
Xbox
Test Drive - A continuation of the Test Drive series that I started playing on the Commodore 64. This one is comparable to Burnout.
Crazy Taxi 3 - A great sequel in a great series.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - An excellent RPG from the PC world. The Xbox version is excellent...it's just that the PC version is better.
GameCube
Bomberman Generation - There have been a great many Bomberman games over the Years. This is one of the better ones.
Lost Kingdoms - A new and somewhat unique RPG for the GameCube.
Tricks - Infinite grenades in Resident Evil, play as Laura Croft in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, several secrets for Jedi Starfighter, increase the size of your stolen-car collection in GTA3, Bonesaw in Spider-Man, strategies and clues for Eternal Darkness, unlock hidden wrestlers and arenas in Wrestlemania X8, plus tons of codes, GameShark codes, and questions answered by the Game Doctor.
Back cover of the August 2002 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly
