This Month's Retro Gamer

[EgoTrip]

Can somebody please upload a scan of the review of Lab Escape in this month's RG?

Thanks in advance.

[Gryzor]

No can do publicly here, since it's copyrighted material that just came out. Send me a PM.

[AMSDOS]

Strangely enough I picked up and had a Read of the Retro Gamer mag in the Newsagent today which was going through some of their favourite Atari 7800 games. It's a lovely colourful mag though $19 is a bit rich, still I guess that's what you get for a mag with No Commercials and Colourful Pages. Just a shame about no Type-ins.

How much is this mag in Europe?

[Gryzor]

Almost €13.5? Ouch. For me a subscription costs me €6.6 per issue. Talk about a difference...

[AMSDOS]

Almost €13.5? Ouch. For me a subscription costs me €6.6 per issue. Talk about a difference...

Yep so €13.5 at todays stock market rate works out to $19.20, so that explains why newsagents sell it for $18.95. A subscription sounds like good value, though I remember people in Australia having to pay a mint for p&h when they subscribed for Amstrad Action, so I suspect it would be the same deal with Retro Gamer.

[Gryzor]

Scratch that, it's 13 issues a year, so it's not €6,6 but a mere €6 per issue. Well worth it.

Oh, and I think "rest of world" (as opposed to Europe) is only a £10/year extra.

[ervin]

Yep so €13.5 at todays stock market rate works out to $19.20, so that explains why newsagents sell it for $18.95. A subscription sounds like good value, though I remember people in Australia having to pay a mint for p&h when they subscribed for Amstrad Action, so I suspect it would be the same deal with Retro Gamer.

Indeed, in my local newsagent, the "express airfreight" delivery of RG is $18.95, but there's no need to be up-to-date with RG, so I just buy the other, 2-month-old edition, which is on the shelf at the same time, but costs $14.95.

Does you newsagent carry the 2-month-old edition?

[AMSDOS]

Indeed, in my local newsagent, the "express airfreight" delivery of RG is $18.95, but there's no need to be up-to-date with RG, so I just buy the other, 2-month-old edition, which is on the shelf at the same time, but costs $14.95.

Does you newsagent carry the 2-month-old edition?

No, I've never come across this, though this was just the local Newsagent which had one copy of Retro Computer.

Which newsagent does that?

[ervin]

I live a few km outside of Adelaide, and I've seen it in a couple of newsagents in Adelaide.
One of them is just a few hundred metres from my office, which is very convenient!

[AMSDOS]

I live a few km outside of Adelaide, and I've seen it in a couple of newsagents in Adelaide.
One of them is just a few hundred metres from my office, which is very convenient!

It's a good idea, sadly I don't think they do it here in Victoria, which makes me wonder what happens to the magazines when they are replaced with the following months, it would be wasteful to throw those issues in the rubbish.