Life In The Niche
No one wants us anymore
The news that a certain retro gaming magazine had crashed and burned a few weeks ago had retrofans cheering in the streets and crying into their cereal in equal measure. Alas, Retro Gamer has hit the corporate wall like a mouse fired from a slingshot...
But what of us, the little retro fanatics, in this post-periodical wasteland? It was only a matter of time before the level of interest waned and the mainstream commercial publications give up on a sinking ship. It has left us with a surplus of inventive folk with no outlet for their retro musings and lots of little fanzine projects are popping up to fill the void.
Retro Survival promises the articles from Retro Gamer 19 and some tabloid-esque sensationalism on the fall of RG. Meanwhile, Retro Bytes and Retro Fusion both look to continue in the retro-scene for a while to come with printed copy coming your way soon. Things are still floating along, and how well they do remains to be seen. Whether motivations are financial, or based on pure enthusiasm, we wish them luck.
Rewind was initially started in 2004 with a growing disdain for the content in RetroGamer. Nothing had yet been produced for the avid gamer who wanted to apply their enthusiam for the genre to actually making something themselves. That's where we come in. Over the next few months, we will be generating more and more content for both gamers and developers, providing something interesting to read every couple of months. All completely free, and available to anyone with a connection to the 'net.
Help us make this magazine something that you will appreciate in the fullest. Give us you feedback and contribute your ideas. Together we will produce something worthy of the retro scene.
The End
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