One of my fondest memories growing up is reading video game magazines.

Before the advent of the internet, we had all our gaming journalism through printed media, the hype would be screenshots and in depth reviews of each game with the most prominent ones certainly in my country, Gamesmaster and N64 Magazine.
Unlike today's reviewing media that's either deliberately pandering to sponsors, entirely biased based on certain social behaviours or just flatout boring, our team of wisecracking writers never took themselves seriously and usually wrote joke stories behind some of the games to hide the spoilers. Then you have Nintendo Power which needs it's own entry as well as Fleetway Sonic the Comic.
Nintendo Power had comics which has it's origins for Wario and Mario being childhood friends and when Peach crossdressed as Luigi bombing Bowser's castle.
Sonic's run in Fleetway was just as special giving some other early Sega properties a go around the same time as Sonic's prime in Archie.
There are some unique stories to come out of this as well which I'll display on my main page if you want to pick my next deep dive.
A brief summary of some memories there.