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| theflea:
They are slides to use for promotional purposes. Used to transfer screen shots and pictures to newspapers & magazines. I used to get those all the time when I reviewed games. Nowadays they send a disc with screen shots but back in the 90s they sent slides with their promotional packs. I think I threw most of those away back in the day, kinda wish I held on to them now. :P |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: theflea on October 15, 2016, 09:54:58 pm ---They are slides to use for promotional purposes. Used to transfer screen shots and pictures to newspapers & magazines. I used to get those all the time when I reviewed games. Nowadays they send a disc with screen shots but back in the 90s they sent slides with their promotional packs. I think I threw most of those away back in the day, kinda wish I held on to them now. :P --- End quote --- I think I'll only keep the panzer dragoon one But you were a game reviewer back in the day. Was that your job? Were you hired by the company, how did they choose you. Nowadays it seems like allot of well known youtubers are game reviewers for publicity. Might be wrong but that's what my guess is. |
| theflea:
--- Quote from: sworddude on October 16, 2016, 02:21:26 pm --- --- Quote from: theflea on October 15, 2016, 09:54:58 pm ---They are slides to use for promotional purposes. Used to transfer screen shots and pictures to newspapers & magazines. I used to get those all the time when I reviewed games. Nowadays they send a disc with screen shots but back in the 90s they sent slides with their promotional packs. I think I threw most of those away back in the day, kinda wish I held on to them now. :P --- End quote --- I think I'll only keep the panzer dragoon one But you were a game reviewer back in the day. Was that your job? Were you hired by the company, how did they choose you. Nowadays it seems like allot of well known youtubers are game reviewers for publicity. Might be wrong but that's what my guess is. --- End quote --- I wrote reviews for a website. (it's no longer around) I started by writing a newsletter that I made for fun and emailed it to people who wanted it. Well someone saw it and I was offered a "job" to write reviews but the only payment was free games. My brother also wrote reviews for a local newspaper. At first we only had maybe three companies sending us games but then we went to several E3's and talked to every PR person that would talk to us. After a while we where getting more games then we could review. The only company that wouldn't send us games was Nintendo, they only offered "loaner copies" So Nintendo didn't get much reviews from us. lol I still recall talking to the game programmers while playing an early beta of the game and telling them pointers to make it better then sometimes seeing those ideas used when the final game came out. I miss that. lol I only stopped because about the mid 2000's the economy was getting bad and the game companies started being picky who got review copies of games and we didn't make the cut. The website wasn't that big. Only the big sites and publications got free products. So I quit doing it. I was only doing it for the free games. I wasn't getting paid after all. lol I did get offers from other web pages to write for them but it was always free work and the sites where never big enough to get game companies to send me review copies. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: theflea on October 19, 2016, 07:54:59 am --- --- Quote from: sworddude on October 16, 2016, 02:21:26 pm --- --- Quote from: theflea on October 15, 2016, 09:54:58 pm ---They are slides to use for promotional purposes. Used to transfer screen shots and pictures to newspapers & magazines. I used to get those all the time when I reviewed games. Nowadays they send a disc with screen shots but back in the 90s they sent slides with their promotional packs. I think I threw most of those away back in the day, kinda wish I held on to them now. :P --- End quote --- I think I'll only keep the panzer dragoon one But you were a game reviewer back in the day. Was that your job? Were you hired by the company, how did they choose you. Nowadays it seems like allot of well known youtubers are game reviewers for publicity. Might be wrong but that's what my guess is. --- End quote --- I wrote reviews for a website. (it's no longer around) I started by writing a newsletter that I made for fun and emailed it to people who wanted it. Well someone saw it and I was offered a "job" to write reviews but the only payment was free games. My brother also wrote reviews for a local newspaper. At first we only had maybe three companies sending us games but then we went to several E3's and talked to every PR person that would talk to us. After a while we where getting more games then we could review. The only company that wouldn't send us games was Nintendo, they only offered "loaner copies" So Nintendo didn't get much reviews from us. lol I still recall talking to the game programmers while playing an early beta of the game and telling them pointers to make it better then sometimes seeing those ideas used when the final game came out. I miss that. lol I only stopped because about the mid 2000's the economy was getting bad and the game companies started being picky who got review copies of games and we didn't make the cut. The website wasn't that big. Only the big sites and publications got free products. So I quit doing it. I was only doing it for the free games. I wasn't getting paid after all. lol I did get offers from other web pages to write for them but it was always free work and the sites where never big enough to get game companies to send me review copies. --- End quote --- never knew thanks for sharing. |
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