This news made me sad when I first heard, but for whatever reason, it hasn't been until today that it's actually hit me. My older brother had a subscription growing up, and gameinformer was pretty much our primary source of game news back then.
I found a site that has downloads for scans of all their issues from 1991 to 2014. It's not everything, but there's a lot here. I've spent most of my afternoon today looking through these and it's be really fun reminiscing over it. I included a small handful of screenshots of pages that I had a lotta fun lookin at.
The Smash Bros spread is from issue #72, "Nintendo's Next" and the Jet Set Radio ad are in issue #91, Forza 4 is issue #222. The last image of the DSi XL is from issue #200, and that one made me surprisingly emotional. I remember that page being how I learned about the DSi XL as a kid, and for some reason, it got me really excited. I was a dumb kid, so of course I wanted one cause I thought the big stylus was really cool, but of course, I didn't need one cause I already had a DSi. I don't even remember it being gameinformer that I was reading, but that mental image of the DSi on that page was stuck in my head for some reason. It's been on my mind since I finally bought myself an XL earlier this year, so when I was thumbing through this random issue and happened upon that exact page, I actually gasped lol. It's such a small and innocuous thing, but it's been years since I've seen it
Definitely gonna miss game informer. The mental image of the new issues that they'd set up on a shelf at my local gamestop, beside the glass case of preowned DS and gameboy games, will probably stick with me for a while. Sad to see them go, but I'll always been grateful they were around at all. They were a great source for news for their time, and I think their old issues will forever serve as a fantastic way to look back and understand what the gaming industry used to be
